Dario Amodei

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)

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)

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)

We need both a way to frequently monitor these emerging risks, and a protocol for responding appropriately when they occur. Autonomous AI systems that escape human control pose a significant threat to society. Unverified source (2023)

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)