Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei at the company’s offices in San Francisco.

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei at the company’s offices in San Francisco.

Photographer: Helynn Ospina for Bloomberg Businessweek
The AI Issue

Anthropic Is Trying to Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul

Dario Amodei has transformed himself from an academic into the CEO of a $61 billion startup.

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei received a message on Slack one day in mid- February: Senior members of his company’s safety team were concerned that, without the right safeguards, the artificial intelligence model they were about to release to the public could be used to help create bioweapons.