Dario Amodei
25 statements across 14 episodes · 5 bullish · 12 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement May 9, 2024 by Jack Clark · said 300 times in 71 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (206), Ranjan Roy (28), Stephen Morris (10), Noah Smith (8), Jack Clark (7), Ed Zitron (6), David Cahn (6), M.G. Siegler (3)
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2026 184 mentions in 38 episodes 5 per episode
- Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
- Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 103 mentions in 29 episodes 4 per episode
- Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs? — With Noah Smith
- Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Dario Amodei, oldest first
May 9, 2024 positive
Clark: Dario Amodei's early Constitutional AI concept sounded completely crazy
“On, I think, like, week four we were talking about RL and language models, and Jared was like, oh, Dario says we're just gonna write a constitution for the AI and it'll just follow that. And I remember being like, that's completely crazy. Why would this ever w…”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Kantrowitz: AI industry lacks understanding of how models work, needs interpretability
“And I kind of, I do agree with Dario that we need more work on interpretability because as they get more powerful conscious or not, again, they're getting more intelligent. It's important to understand how they work, and the field just doesn't have an understa…”
May 27, 2025 bearish
Ranjan Roy: One-person billion-dollar company by 2026 is pure hype
“Hype. Absolute hype. I, I'm actually so tired of this. I'm coming around even more than it's the product, not the model. I'm coming around more. It's people. It's not technology. That's my new one. It's P it. This is more of a people challenge than a technolog…”
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: Mass AI Worker Replacement Will Not Happen in 1-5 Years
“Now, is this something that you could see happen over 20, 30 years? If the technology keeps accelerating at the pace it's been accelerating, which is an open question, maybe, but this idea that we're going to see it within one to five years, that just doesn't …”
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Jul 9, 2025 positive
Kantrowitz: Anthropic's safety branding fits Apple better than OpenAI's 'chaos'
“I think they probably, if they've met with both leadership teams, I think they probably are a company that would absolutely go for Dario's safety branding. Like it's the safety company with the privacy company versus open AI, which is kind of like the chaos pr…”
Jul 30, 2025
Amodei: AI safety and capabilities cannot be developed separately
“I think in this field, the alignment of AI systems and the capability of AI systems is intertwined in this way that always ends up being kind of more tied and more intertwined than we think. Actually what this made me realize is that It's very hard to work on …”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Amodei: Accelerationists lack moral credibility and have brains full of adrenaline
“Some of these people who on Twitter, you know, cheer for acceleration, I don't think they have a humanistic sense of the benefit of the technology. Their brains just full of adrenaline, and they're like, they want to cheer for something, they want to accelerat…”
Jul 30, 2025
Amodei: GPT-2 and GPT-3 were built to test RLHF at scale
“Actually, the original reason for building GPT-II and GPT-III, it was an outgrowth of the kind of AI alignment work that we were doing, right? Where myself and Paul Cristiano and some of the Anthropic co-founders had invented this technique called RL from huma…”
Jul 30, 2025 neutral
Amodei: Open-source AI lacks traditional software's inspectability and additive collaboration
“I don't think open source works the same way in, in AI that it has worked in other areas. Primarily because with open source, you can see the, you know, you can see the source code of the model. Here, we can't see inside the model. You know, it's often called …”
Jul 30, 2025 bullish
Amodei: In a couple years, AI will be the world's biggest industry
“I actually think that, you know, as the revenues, as the economic business of AI ramps up and it's ramping up exponentially, you know, if I'm right in a couple years, it'll be the biggest source of revenue in the world, right? It'll be the biggest industry in …”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Jul 30, 2025 bearish
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Amodei: Former employers used insincere mission stories for recruiting
“You know, I think my reason to start a company was that I had worked at other companies and I just didn't feel like the way those companies were run was really oriented towards, you know, trying, trying, trying to have that impact. There was a story around it …”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Amodei: Accusations That Anthropic Seeks an AI Monopoly Are 'Bad Faith'
“I've said nothing that, that any, that anywhere near resembles the idea that this company should be the only one to build the technology. I don't know how anyone could ever derive that from anything that I've said. It's just, yeah, yeah, it's just a, it's just…”
Jul 30, 2025 neutral
Amodei: Open-source is a red herring; DeepSeek's open status didn't matter
“I've actually always seen it as a red herring. When I see it, when I see a new model come out, I don't care whether it's open source or not. Like if we talk about Deep Seek, I don't think it mattered that Deep Seek is open source. I think I ask, is it a good m…”
Jul 30, 2025 negative
Amodei: Working for dishonest executives to advance AI leads to bad outcomes
“No matter how much you're driving the forward, the company technically, if you're working for someone whose motivations are not sincere, who's not an honest person, who does not truly want to make the world better, it's not going to work. You're just contribut…”
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Nov 28, 2025 bullish
Anthropic CEO told Kantrowitz company will hit $10B run rate this year
“I was sitting with, ah, Dario Amode, the CEO of Anthropic, a couple months ago, and he said that the company did, ah, one billion a couple years ago, and it's scheduled to do something close to ten billion in run rate by the end of the year.”
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Kantrowitz: OpenAI requires exponential growth in revenue and capabilities to succeed
“It's one of those things where it really has to continue on an exponential, exponential increases in revenue, exponential increases in capabilities to be able to work. And to me, and we talked about this is a great, this is great unknown.”
Feb 16, 2026
Adler: Hassabis and Amodei would slow AI pace if they were sole players
“And so at Davos a few weeks ago, I think both Demis and Dario said some variation of, yeah, like if we were the only two groups building this technology, We would find a way to get together and figure out how to slow down this frantic pace. Like it's going too…”
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Ranjan Roy: AI backlash is driven by disdain for Altman and Musk
“I think so much of this branding problem is around when it is Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and even, I mean, I guess Dario is kind of seeming to be the good guy in the narrative over the last couple of weeks, but it's who the spokespeople are, how they're speakin…”
May 27, 2026 bearish