Dario Amodei: Anthropic Must Remain At The Frontier Of The AI "Race To The Top"

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. Calvin listed nine actions by Anthropic over the past year that he said undermined its safety commitments, including signing deals for more than $500 billion in compute and increasingly relying on Claude to develop its AI models. Amodei said his position was that Anthropic can do more to keep the AI industry safe if it stays at the frontier Our strategy has always been what I've called the 'race to the top' — by showing how it's possible to build the technology responsibly, we can raise the bar for the entire industry," Amodei acknowledged Anthropic could have handled some of the issues Calvin raised better. These included a draft bill Anthropic circulated to Congress this month — obtained exclusively by Politico — that critics said would make it harder for the federal government to block dangerous AI models. "We first had Mythos-class models in February but didn’t make them generally available until June (when we had stronger cyber safeguards in place)." "It would have been much more economically rational to simply r