Secu­ri­ty expert: Anthropic’s dire warn­ings about its own AI are pure hype

Wel­come to Wednesday’s edi­tion of Wash­ing­ton Secrets, where we are try­ing to fin­ish up ear­ly so we can sneak off for a huge World Cup after­noon. But first, we talk to a tech insid­er who tells us that Anthropic’s doom-mon­ger­ing about AI is actu­al­ly a hype machine designed to help it cor­ner the mar­ket. Plus, we have polling that shows what the Amer­i­can pub­lic thinks of AI and its impact on the Amer­i­can Dream…Anthropic sent shock­waves through the tech indus­try in April when it announced it had built a large lan­guage mod­el so advanced, so awe-inspir­ing­ly pow­er …