Dario Amodei
14 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 8 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2026 by John Coogan · said 215 times in 73 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (76), Jordi Hays (29), Tyler Cosgrove (12), Ben Thompson (5), Alap Shah (3), Zach Kukoff (1), Tae Kim (1), Sholto Douglas (1)
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2026 192 mentions in 56 episodes 3 per episode
- FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
- Tesla’s Roadster, Car Week Takes, Unwell Beverages Shuts Down | Diet TBPN
- A Short History of America Nationalizing its Companies
- Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
- Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
- 48 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 23 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
- Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN
- Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- Silicon Valley vs The Vatican, Bryan Johnson’s Shroom Trip | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- THE MEGA BILL - What's ACTUALLY inside?
- Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN
- The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Dario Amodei, oldest first
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Coogan: Moltbook AI agents make zero mention of TSMC or Dario Amodei
“There was also no there were no mentions of AI keywords. Like, if Skynet's really waking up, are they not thinking about Dario Amade? Yeah, so no mentions of Stratechery, no mentions of Dwarkesh, no mentions of TSMC, Abilene, Amadei, TPU.”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Feb 20, 2026 bullish
Amodei: AI models will surpass human cognitive capabilities within years
“My fundamental view is that AI has been on an exponential for the last 10 years and as part of a sort of Moore's law for intelligence, and that we are now well advanced on that curve, and there are only a small number of years for AI models surpassing the cogn…”
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Shah: AI labs avoid predicting economic fallout to protect fundraising
“But they can't go so far as to say like, hey, if you put the pieces together,
Then this is how it's going to play out.
I think it's too sort of damaging to sort of their reputations and like, you know, their ability to fundraise and things like that.”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Coogan: Amodei made a comms error arguing against military AI
“I thought it would have just been better Like, much more stronger communication for him to say, hey, look, we're anthropic, we've built a system that's specifically good at answering questions, being friendly and helpful, writing code, like, our system is awes…”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Coogan: Amodei used classified contracts to restrict military AI
“He clearly believes that, that the Department of War should not be using AI broadly, and then he was trying to use his contract as a way to sort of enforce that, because he has that leadership position with the most deep integration to classified systems.”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Thompson: Trusting Dario Amodei Over Congress Abandons Democratic Governance
“You could say Congress isn't gonna do anything, therefore, Amadei should. Just appreciate that is giving up on the democratic process and saying we should have unelected, unaccountable individuals making weighty decisions.”
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Coogan: Alex Karp shifts toward Amodei's view on AI disrupting white-collar work
“Karp did seem like pretty shifted in his opinion of how AI would impact the economy. It was definitely, definitely an update to how he's thinking, definitely more in the Dario Amadei camp of a significant impact to white collar work.”
Apr 1, 2026 negative
Jul 30, 2026 neutral