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Dario Amodei: The Anthropic CEO Betting on Safety as Strategy

Dario Amodei is one of the few frontier-lab CEOs whose public talking points have not changed materially in five years. The same message he gave to small audiences in 2021 - that powerful AI is coming faster than people think, that the safety problem is real, and that the companies building it have an obligation to do so carefully - is the message he is giving to Congress and Davos in 2026. The thing that has changed is that he now runs the company most aggressively turning that message into a commercial position. ...

May 11, 2026 · 13 min · James M