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Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann

Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic and tech lead for product engineering, discusses why he and colleagues left OpenAI over safety prioritization, his forecast of superintelligence around 2028, and Anthropic's use of constitutional AI and RLAIF to align Claude without sacrificing capability. He also covers the war for AI talent, why coding and customer service are being transformed fastest, and how he's raising his daughters to value curiosity over credentials.