Words Matter
I was just finishing up a somewhat meandering post on options for my business in year 2, when I ran across this gem on Axios, and felt compelled to interrupt my original programming to address this. In summary, Anthropic is "warning" that fully AI "employees" are about a year away from becoming a reality. Discounting the veracity of the statement (Is there hype in the AI space now? I wouldn't know), there are a few things from the headline alone that caught my attention. First, it's somewhat surprising that one of the companies promising an AI utopia is "warning" us of this development (to be fair, the warnings are about ensuring that the agents behave in a secure manner, but wouldn't this be an expected condition of hiring, especially among such a special beast?). I don't usually receive warnings for good news - "Hey, Todd, I want to warn you that you'll be expecting a massive windfall of several million dollars soon! Beware...
