Views vary about Dario Amodei.
US President Donald Trump has denounced the chief executive of Anthropic and his AI company’s fellow founders as radical “leftwing nut jobs”. Amodei’s offence? Daring to argue that Anthropic’s services should not be used by the Pentagon for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
The influential tech analyst Ben Thompson has also criticised Amodei for crying wolf about the risks of AI, which he describes as a “disaster-porn-as-marketing tool”. Even so, Thompson has just crowned Anthropic as the current frontrunner in the AI race for developing wildly popular coding tools and releasing the powerful Claude Mythos model, of which more later.