Schmidt and co-authors liken OpenAI and Anthropic to the East India Company
What happened
On October 25, The Decoder reported that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Niall Ferguson and Lisa Klassen co-wrote a Foreign Affairs piece comparing OpenAI and Anthropic to the colonial-era East India Company. The report centers on the historical analogy made by all three authors, not by Schmidt alone. The report does not detail the article's argument, any response from the two companies, or later developments.
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- The DecoderEx-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
前 Google CEO 埃里克·施密特与尼尔·弗格森、丽莎·克拉森在《Foreign Affairs》撰文，将 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 比作殖民时代的东印度公司。
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