Tommy Shaughnessy, host of The Delphi Podcast, said an unnamed Anthropic researcher told him he was “enjoying my last six months” during dinner at Shaughnessy’s home. In an episode released October 9th, Shaughnessy said the researcher was serious and that “most people in Anthropic” believed they had six months. He added that the researcher was the only person from one of the leading AI labs he had spoken with in person. The account is a secondhand anecdote; the episode provides no independent evidence for the claim.…
