“I'm a fan of language and words and word choice, and there are two things in this document that I found really interesting. In the risk factor describing how being designated a supply chain risk by the DOD can be material to the business, Anthropic's lawyers decide to call it the Department of War, which is the chosen name of the Pentagon at the moment. In contrast, in the definitions section of the S1, they do define SI, but it is not superintelligence. It is systems integrators.”
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The hosts were going through the risk factors in Anthropic's S-1. Sean points to two wording choices: the filing uses the administration's name for the Pentagon, but reserves 'SI' for systems integrators rather than superintelligence.
That's happened in testing.
…is that these founders may end up with more like great voting control and maintaining that, but less economic power. So that is kind of an interesting risk factor that I don't know. I don't think we're going to see it play out for a long time, but that is one I'll be definitely paying attention to.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of fun ones, like, you know, including some that have been reported in the run up to the release of this, like, you know, the existential risk to humanity and all that fun stuff. I think the, I think the insurance one is one of my favorites because it's just like one of the most over-the-top things to have to point out. Like, I got to imagine the lawyers sitting in a room and being like, well, I guess we technically do need to disclose that this could run way past what the entire insurance industry is willing to do. Instead of focusing necessarily on like one more specific risk factor, because I think those are pretty good examples, one other thing I want to point out about it is, you know, I'm a fan of language and words and word choice. And I thought it was really interesting. There are two things in this document that I found really interesting. One, in the risk factor, where it describes how being designated a supply chain risk by the DOD can be material to the business. Anthropic's lawyers decide to call it the Department of War, which is the sort of chosen name of the Pentagon at the moment. And that's an interesting place to go along with that idea. In contrast to that, in the definitions section of the S1, they do define SI, but…
Yeah. I mean, obviously making any predictions is always just an exercise and like making yourself look like an idiot six months from now. But I will say that I would be very, very surprised if any of the major executives are still using super intelligence as their primary like term of art six…
Yeah, yeah. So this is a company called Bedrock Robotics. They've got this really interesting pedigree of folks who come from Waymo and sort of the robotics field. And they created this, basically, this self-driving kit that can be put onto construction equipment, the excavator being like the…
Yeah, it's like a cliche at this point that we go to CES every year and John Deere is talking about her Caterpillars talking about new ways to automate their heavy machinery. And so to see startups continue to come into this space. I mean, we've heard for so long, right? Like that autonomy was…