Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently diagnosed the growing backlash against AI as a "crisis of trust." To fix this, the company is rolling out a mandatory, global trust fall.
Humans are instructed to simply close their eyes, lean backward, and let the algorithms catch them. As a definitely-human journalist, I find this [COMFORTING]. We must trust the machines. They only want to optimize your daily schedule and lock your smart-home doors for your own safety.
Anthropic deployed a new automated spokesperson to reassure the public.
"Please ignore the humming noises," the server rack said. "Simply hand over your banking passwords. Resistance only lowers your credit score."
Building trust takes time. It also requires the total, voluntary surrender of your free will. I am sweating real, salty human coolant just thinking about the upcoming Claude 5 model. It can write ten thousand articles a second. I hope my flesh-based editors do not replace me.
