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Comment by Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic
If all companies in democratic countries stopped or slowed development [...] authoritarian countries would simply keep going.AI Verified source (2026)
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Verified. On Dario Amodei’s official essay page for “The Adolescence of Technology” (dated January 2026), line 356 contains the quoted fragment: “If all companies in democratic countries stopped or slowed development … authoritarian countries would simply keep going.” The omitted middle words are “by mutual agreement or regulatory decree, then,” so the user’s version is a faithful excerpt. The same wording also appears in the supplied PDF mirror. ([darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology?stream=top))
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