Dario Amodei spent 2,000 words laying out to a critic on X why Anthropic must persist in the AI ‘race to the top'
Business Insider·2026-10-21 14:54

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disputed a criticism that the company was putting AI safety in the back seat in its "race to the top."On Tuesday, the executive wrote a nearly 2,000-word response to a critical X post which said Anthropic was trying to win a race to superintelligence and deprioritizing AI safety.The original Monday X post was by Nathan Calvin, the chief strategy officer of Encode AI, an AI-safety advocacy nonprofit. Calvin listed nine actions by Anthropic over the past year that he said undermined ...

Dario Amodei spent 2,000 words laying out to a critic on X why Anthropic must persist in the AI ‘race to the top' - Reportify