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)

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)

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)

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 is something we should consider and I think i... more Unverified source (2025)

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)

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)

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)

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)