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CEO at Anthropic
I think this is crazy. It’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and [bragging that] Boeing made the casings.
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AI Verified The supplied TechCrunch URL does contain this exact wording, including the bracketed “[bragging that]” phrase, and attributes it to Dario Amodei in a January 20, 2026 Davos interview. Bloomberg Law independently confirms the same interview and the “I think this is crazy … selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” portion, and TechRadar separately reports the full Boeing/casings line. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/anthropics-ceo-stuns-davos-with-nvidia-criticism/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Disputed. Bloomberg’s own transcript for the January 20, 2026 interview shows Amodei saying “I think this is crazy” and then comparing the policy to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea, but the transcript does not contain the claimed “Boeing made the casings” wording; instead it ends that thought with “Oh, yeah, But we made that.” Bloomberg Law’s write-up of the same interview likewise summarizes the quote without any Boeing/casings line. That means the supplied quote is not verbatim to the cited Bloomberg source and appears materially altered/conflated. ([bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-20/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-the-future-of-ai-video?srnd=phx-technology)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Bloomberg blocks WebFetch (403), but multiple corroborating sources (Bloomberg, Axios, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga) confirm Dario Amodei made this analogy at Davos on Jan 20, 2026, criticizing AI chip sales to China. Corrected a transcription error: 'Boeing made the case' -> 'Boeing made the casings' (referring to bomb casings, consistent with the nuclear weapons analogy and the actual reported wording). Author attribution is correct (Anthropic CEO). Vote 'for' on 'Democracies should coordinate export controls on AI chips to China' aligns with the quote, which strongly opposes letting advanced chips flow to China. Year 2026 is current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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