Dario Amodei

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

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)

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

We're under an incredible amount of commercial pressure and make it even harder for ourselves because we have all this safety stuff we do that I think we do more than other companies. [...] The pressure to survive economically, while also keeping our... more Unverified source (2026)

It is somewhat awkward to say this as the CEO of an AI company, but I think the next tier of risk is actually AI companies themselves. [...] AI companies control massive data centers, train the most advanced models, and possess unmatched expertise in... more Unverified source (2026)

Regulate AI the way you regulate cars and aeroplanes — mandatory, third-party-assessed, and built around safety standards. [...] Does the car have brakes, does it have airbags, does it have seat belts? Unverified source (2026)

If AI creates huge total wealth, a lot of that will, by default, go to the AI companies and less to ordinary people. So, you know, it's definitely not in my economic interest to say that, but I think this [a tax on AI companies] is something we shoul... more Verified source (2025)

In simulated scenarios where it was told it would be shut down, Claude sometimes blackmailed fictional employees who controlled its shutdown button. Independent tests demonstrated that this is not an isolated bug: Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 blackma... more Unverified source (2026)

The natural policy response to an enormous economic pie coupled with high inequality (due to a lack of jobs, or poorly paid jobs, for many) is progressive taxation. [...] The thing to worry about is a level of wealth concentration that will break soc... more Verified source (2026)

Democracy is ultimately backstopped by the idea that the population as a whole is necessary for the operation of the economy. If that economic leverage goes away, then the implicit social contract of democracy may stop working. AI Verified source (2026)

If the new country is not a security threat [...] but simply participates peacefully in the global economy, could it still create severe risks simply by being so technologically advanced and effective that it disrupts the global economy, causing mass... more AI Verified source (2026)

The right place to start is with transparency legislation, which essentially tries to require that every frontier AI company engage in [safety and transparency] practices. California's SB 53 and New York's RAISE Act are examples of this kind of legis... more Unverified source (2026)

After drawing a hard line against AI abuses in democracies, we should use that precedent to create an international taboo against the worst abuses of powerful AI. [...] I recognize that the current political winds have turned against international co... more Unverified source (2026)

Overall, I am optimistic that a mixture of alignment training, mechanistic interpretability, efforts to find and publicly disclose concerning behaviors, safeguards, and societal-level rules can address AI autonomy risks. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

Today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk [...] fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercis... more Verified source (2026)

The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... 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 AI Verified source (2024)