Opinion | What Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing Says About the Future of A.I. (Gift Article)

I wrote about how it would be better to discuss the bitter lesson and its tradeoffs today, instead of talking about whether robots are conscious in an imagined future. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

The bitter lesson (of A.I.) 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

'“What are you willing to give up for A.I.?” is an uncomfortable question, but it will be more useful than bickering over whether a computer has a soul.'

the A.I. industry, is making a huge bet it can brute-force its way into achieving its goals. Their budgets focus heavily on physical infrastructure and gaining access to more and more and more energy and land. They will be lobbying to build ever bigger. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

@ftrain.com, articulate as ever, describes the “bitter lesson” that made my PhD research irrelevant.

ANTHROPIC IPO SWIRL Anthropic’s IPO reveals AI’s core bet: bigger models, more compute, and trillions in spending. The real debate isn’t AI consciousness, but how much land, energy, and money society should devote to scaling it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Very insightful piece, thinking about the future of AI development slightly differently. “How much of our society, culture, land, water and electricity do we want to allocate to building language-prediction devices? Is it worth potentially burning through trillions of dollars this quickly?“

This article takes a minute to get to the point, but puts forth a valid question: Given that scale is the way of AI's future, how much are we willing to give them? We could just slow down and consider alternatives. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

‘“What are you willing to give up for A.I.?” is an uncomfortable question, but it will be more useful than bickering over whether a computer has a soul.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

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In this house, we have nuanced conversations about AI. Another great piece that can help shift the conversation to what actually matters by @ftrain.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

Opinion | What Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing Says About the Future of A.I. (Gift Article) f the nyt

Wow - was not aware the Anthropic S1 prominently mentions Sutton's "bitter lesson" on the very first page: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/o...

“”What are you willing to give up for A.I.?” … As much as I love computers, democracy is the more important technology… The bitter lesson is something everyone needs to understand, so that we can decide just how much that bitterness is worth — for the A.I. industry, and for the rest of us.” 🎁