- Publicly funded researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough on some type of very important medicine. Cure for diabetes let's say.
- These researchers use Claude for some stuff. Maybe cleaning up the wording in their paper, finding relevant work to cite, whatever.
- Anthropic notices their work, and puts an army of agents on scooping them. These agents are able to make use of the researchers as yet unpublished work.
- Anthropic scoops the publicly funded researchers and patents the diabetes cure.
- Rather than being available at low prices, the cure for diabetes is put behind a paywall.
Here the stakes are much higher than the ones in the mathematical scenario we've already seen play out. We're talking life or death shit, rather than some ethical or philosophical questions about what is math really or whatever.
Don't tell me a for-profit company would never do this. We've all seen worse.
- Publicly funded researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough on some type of very important medicine. Cure for diabetes let's say.
- These researchers use Claude for some stuff. Maybe cleaning up the wording in their paper, finding relevant work to cite, whatever.
- Anthropic notices their work, and puts an army of agents on scooping them. These agents are able to make use of the researchers as yet unpublished work.
- Anthropic scoops the publicly funded researchers and patents the diabetes cure.
- Rather than being available at low prices, the cure for diabetes is put behind a paywall.
Here the stakes are much higher than the ones in the mathematical scenario we've already seen play out. We're talking life or death shit, rather than some ethical or philosophical questions about what is math really or whatever.
Don't tell me a for-profit company would never do this. We've all seen worse.