Dario Amodei

From a business perspective, the difference between open and closed is a little bit overblown. From a security perspective, the difference between open and closed models is, for some intents and purposes, overblown. The most important thing is how po... more Verified source (2025)

Many of the risks and worries associated with generative AI are ultimately consequences of this opacity, and would be much easier to address if the models were interpretable. [...] governments can use light-touch rules to encourage the development o... more Verified source

It is mortgaging our future as as a country to to sell these chips to China. Unverified source (2025)

I don’t know exactly when it’ll come, I don’t know if it’ll be 2027. I think it’s plausible it could be longer than that. I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than... more Unverified source (2025)

I think we absolutely have to make the testing mandatory, but we also need to be really careful about how we do it. Unverified source (2024)

He also noted the standard should require AI developers to adopt policies for testing models and publicly disclose them [...] Unverified source (2026)

AI brings threats to humanity from multiple directions [...]. AI-driven terrorism could kill millions through the misuse of biology [...]. Unverified source (2026)

This means that in 2026-2027 we could end up in one of two starkly different worlds. In the US, multiple companies will definitely have the required millions of chips (at the cost of tens of billions of dollars). The question is whether China will al... more Unverified source (2025)

There's a 25% chance that the future of AI will go “really, really badly,” Unverified source (2025)

We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our... more Unverified source (2026)

artificial intelligence companies, including his own, should be subject to mandatory testing requirements to ensure their technologies are safe for the public before release. Unverified source (2024)

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the i... more Unverified source (2026)

Two “extreme” positions both seem false to me. First, you might think that the world would be instantly transformed on the scale of seconds or days (“the Singularity”), as superior intelligence builds on itself and solves every possible scientific, e... more Unverified source (2024)