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Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

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Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

In a June 2026 essay, Dario Amodei wrote that frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and that their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.

CEO of AnthropicPublished June 2026 · date of remarks not establishedPolicy on the AI Exponential

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I therefore believe we should model AI regulation on agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety. I am grateful to see the Trump administration’s Executive Order move incrementally towards a greater role for government in AI, though Anthropic’s proposal recommends even further action.

What this quote does not say

  • The role evidence page (darioamodei.com) was current when opened and does not itself date Amodei's role to the essay's publication month; the essay says only that he speaks in terms of U.S. policy 'since Anthropic is an American company'.
  • The same section scopes the proposal: mandatory third-party testing applies to models above a compute threshold and to four named risk areas (cybersecurity, biological weapons, loss of control, automated R&D), and the government's blocking power 'must be scoped to the above four specific risks' with protections against political favoritism.

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I make all these points to emphasize that I disagree with the notion of AI misalignment (and thus existential risk from AI) being inevitable, or even probable, from first principles. But I agree that a lot of very weird and unpredictable things can go wrong, and therefore AI misalignment is a real risk with a measurable probability of happening, and is not trivial to address.

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

In a January 2026 essay, Dario Amodei wrote that he disagrees that AI misalignment, and thus existential risk from AI, is inevitable or even probable from first principles, but that a lot of weird and unpredictable things can go wrong and AI misalignment is a real risk with a measurable probability of happening that is not trivial to address.

CEO of AnthropicPublished January 2026 · date of remarks not establishedThe Adolescence of Technology

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… from fiction or pre-training) that makes them power-hungry or overzealous—in the same way that some humans simply enjoy the idea of being “evil masterminds,” more so than they enjoy whatever evil masterminds are trying to accomplish. I make all these points to emphasize that I disagree with the notion of AI misalignment (and thus existential risk from AI) being inevitable, or even probable, from first principles. But I agree that a lot of very weird and unpredictable things can go wrong, and therefore AI misalignment is a real risk with a measurable probability of happening, and is not trivial to address. Any of these problems could potentially arise during training and not manifest during testing or small-scale use, because AI models are known to display different personalities or behaviors under different circumstances.

What this quote does not say

  • The essay does not attach a numeric probability to this qualification.
  • The qualification is aimed at the first-principles argument for inevitable power-seeking, not at the risk itself: the preceding paragraphs set out a 'more moderate and more robust' version of the pessimistic position that he says does concern him, and call the combination of intelligence, agency, coherence and poor controllability 'both plausible and a recipe for existential danger'.

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Statements they signed

FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Signed statement: “Statement on AI Extinction Risk” (CAIS)

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Dario Amodei signed the Statement on AI Extinction Risk, which says reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

CEO, AnthropicDate not establishedStatement on AI Extinction Risk

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Montreal / Mila AI Scientists Demis Hassabis CEO, Google DeepMind AI Scientists Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI Other Notable Figures Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic AI Scientists Dawn Song Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley AI Scientists Ted Lieu Congressman, US House of Representatives Other Notable Figures Bill Gates Gates Ventures Other Notable Figures Ya-Qin Zhang Professor

What this quote does not say

  • The roster's wording for Amodei's role is “CEO, Anthropic.”

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FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.

Signed statement: “Pacing the Frontier” (frontier-lab employees, Guidelight + Encode AI)

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Dario Amodei signed Pacing the Frontier, which asks the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop tools for deliberately pacing automated AI development.

CEO, AnthropicDate not establishedPacing the Frontier

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Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI Jasjeet Sekhon Chief Strategy Officer, Google DeepMind Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic Jack Clark Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic Anca Dragan VP, AI Safety & Alignment, Google Wojciech Zaremba Head of AI Resilience, OpenAI Foundation Dawn Song VP, AI Research, Meta Chris Olah Co-Founder &

What this quote does not say

  • The roster's wording for Amodei's role is “CEO, Anthropic.”

How this was checked

  • The organiser's own roster lists this person as a signer.

Reviewed by

an AI reviewer that read the whole source