{"slug": "metr-anthropic-network", "title": "METR Anthropic Network", "summary": "An audit of Anthropic's finances alleges the company has built a self-reinforcing \"Anthropic Network\" in which third-party evaluator METR is financially dependent on Anthropic's success, with Anthropic stock held by Dustin Moskovitz through the Good Ventures Foundation growing from $500 million early last year to more than $7.7 billion roughly 16 months later. The audit claims the same funders back AI-doom-promoting organizations such as the Tarbell Center, and calls for a Congressional investigation into what it describes as a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.", "body_md": "I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.\nWhat I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.\nAnthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.\nIt has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.\nStructural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.\nIt starts with METR.\nDario Amodei proposes \"third-party evaluators\" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.\nHe proposes METR for this purpose.\nBut METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.\nDustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.\nAnd GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.\nThis stock was worth $500 million early last year.\nIt is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.\nMETR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.\nBecause if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.\nBut if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.\nThe \"third-party evaluator\" is not \"third-party\" at all.\nThe evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.\nIf this were the end of it, that's bad.\nBut that isn't all.\nThe same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.\nThe Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.\nThey are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.\nAll of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.\nAs Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.\nMeanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.\nFrom this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.\nThis itself is an objective fact.\nThe deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.\nBut the problem also goes in the other direction:\nIf Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.\nNeither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.\nHence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.\nThey simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.\nAnd Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.\nWhat's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.\nThe Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.\nAnd that feedback loop is winning.\nThat's what Jacob Coxon is.\nChina is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.\nAmerica has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.\nAnthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.\nIronically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.\nIt is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.\nAnthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.\nExcept Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.\nCongress must investigate.\nEvidence and Github in next post.\nThen some supplementary figures.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metr-anthropic-network", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/kevinnbass/status/2099621874279817638", "published_at": "2026-09-15 02:56:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 03:31:43.347095+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "METR", "Dario Amodei", "Dustin Moskovitz", "Good Ventures Foundation", "Tarbell Center", "Jacob Coxon", "The Verge"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metr-anthropic-network", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metr-anthropic-network.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metr-anthropic-network.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metr-anthropic-network.jsonld"}}