The overly-serious eggheads at Anthropic are adamant that they’ve “solved” a problem that’s been plaguing humankind since time immemorial: humor.
At least, that’s according to former employee Jacob Coxon, best known as the guy who quit Anthropic and claimed that the AI industry was “gambling with our lives.”
In a new interview with New York Magazine, Coxon recalled some of the “groupthink dynamics” he saw taking hold at Anthropic and how they made him feel, at times, like the odd man out.
“When I first joined, there was a Slack channel with a Claude that had been trained to solve humor,” he said. “And they were like, ‘Yeah, we solved humor. Here’s the Claude. We’ve solved it.’”
