**[Anthropic Offers High Salaries to Attract Talent, but CEO Worries They’re Only in It for the Money]** According to monitoring by 动察 Beating and reports from Axios citing insiders, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is concerned that some of the top talent recently joining the company are motivated more by high salaries and equity rather than Anthropic's emphasized mission of AI safety. His concerns are not unfounded. Top AI researchers are hopping between several labs. Thinking Machines has seen four co-founders leave within a year; Google’s Noam Shazeer and John Jumper have respectively moved to OpenAI and Anthropic; and some researchers Meta recruited with significant investment have quickly switched jobs again. Money remains the most direct incentive. Some researchers aim to secure equity ahead of potential IPOs by Anthropic or OpenAI. Others worry that as AI takes over more model development tasks in the future, the current scarcity and bargaining power of top researchers may diminish rapidly. [Original Link]