Expert takes Aug 19, 2026

This week · event date 08-18

A long-standing critic of Anthropic changed his mind in public, and the part he changed is the part worth studying.

Zvi Mowshowitz has spent years going through AI lab documents section by section on his newsletter, and his stance on Anthropic has generally been critical. After reading the 186-page report from main line item 2, he wrote: "At first I was skeptical. It turns out I was wrong" — because Anthropic disclosed a great deal of information it did not have to disclose, some of it fairly alarming (the piece, 08-18). But he finished the sentence, and the second half is the point: he called the report "a moderately positive update overall, if we presume they are not silently omitting the worst of it." That is precisely the box we keep having to tick in item 2 — the document states in plain text that some commercially sensitive details are redacted, and the vendor decides what gets redacted. Voluntary disclosure deserving encouragement, and voluntary disclosure being treated as the complete facts, are two different things. Changing your mind on the first while conceding nothing on the second is a good demonstration of how to do this. ⚠️ This is one independent commentator's personal judgment, not an audit finding; he read the same document we did, so his reading and our primary comparison do not constitute an independent second source.