Easy. You oppose it. You dedicate all your resources to stopping not just OpenAI, but anybody trying to make these technologies.
With all those billions of dollars, you could get a lot done.
Anthropic doesn't do this, which exposes the fundamental hypocrisy in their stated philosophies.
I characterize the culture of companies based on who works there. Anthropic is founded by people who left OpenAI because it didn't take safety seriously enough. But if AI development has to happen, they want to be the ones leading it. People who do not feel that way, including Anthropic's former head of safety, just don't work there.
Generally, corporations spending billions of dollars on lobbyists is frowned upon. I suspect individual Anthropic employees may make significant donations to AI safety politics and charities, but I don't have proof.
If they actually believe this stuff is so dangerous, they should shut down their company, and use their fortune to buy up/shut down all the others.
But of course they don't actually believe that. It is just marketing hype.
You can't be out there selling doomsday devices, saying "maybe we should slow down development of bigger doomsday devices", while *still selling doomsday devices". That is just blatant hypocrisy. Eating cake and having it, too. Oxymoron.
No, they don't actually believe this. Not in a meaningful capacity.
(FWIW, I don't believe it, either. I think we should continue developing the technology).
Even if they could somehow cash out their entire market cap, Google's is >4x theirs. AND if they quit, their competitors' valuations go up. AND there's nothing to stop those employees from leaving and founding new AI companies.
You'd rather they signal their virtue and give up their ability to make a difference.
The Anthropic people probably also believe that AI has the potential to cure all diseases and reduce material poverty, which is the reason they would probably give for why they're pursuing it.
They then ring the alarm bell to mitigate the risk and increase the chances of the upside scenario coming to fruition.
Or they could take your advice up-thread and just lie to stay out of the government's crosshairs. That's another option.
I think Anthropic believe these risks, but I also think they've spent so much time talking to Claude that they've pretty much lost their minds now. Anthropic have a model welfare department and have numerous times suggested that Claude is conscious and has human like emotions.
It's not a difficult leap to assume a twin brother is conscious. If you think it is, why do you think this?
Are they not doing what they should do, which is call for increased regulation? Last I checked, they were not able to create and enact laws.