Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI

At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei told editor at large Steven Levy that even though Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks may have tweeted that her company is “running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering,” she’s convinced her company’s commitment to calling out the potential dangers of AI is making the industry stronger.

“We were very vocal from day one that we felt there was this incredible potential [for AI],” Amodei said. “We really want to be able to have the entire world realize the potential, the positive benefits, and the upside that can come from AI and in order to do that, we have to get the tough things right. We have to make the risks manageable. And that's why we talk about it so much.”

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