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Big Technology Podcast

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness. The interview is part of a major Big Technology profile about Amodei, ft. interviews with more than two dozen of his colleagues, friends, and critics. You can read that story for free here: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei We also cover Mark Zuckerberg's AI talent spending spree, Amodei's rivalry with OpenAI, his response to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's criticism, the state of the AI scaling laws, and whether there's a risk we'll lose control of the technology. Tune in for a candid, emotional, and high energy conversation with one of the leaders driving the AI wave today. --- Audio and Video by Matt Breetzke of Fireside Visuals: https://www.firesidevisuals.com/ --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0

I get very angry when people call me a doomer.

0:03.0

When, you know, when someone's like, this guy's a doomer, he wants to slow things down.

0:07.0

You heard what I just said.

0:09.0

Like, you know, my father died because of, you know, cures that, you know, could have happened a few years later.

0:15.0

I understand the benefit of this technology.

0:17.0

I'm sure you've heard the criticism from people like Jensen who say,

0:20.0

well, Dario thinks he's the only one who can build this safely and therefore wants to control the entire industry.

0:26.8

I've never said, I've never said anything like that. That's an outrageous lie. That's the most outrageous lie I've ever heard.

0:33.6

Anthropic CEO Dario Amade joins us to talk about the path forward for artificial intelligence,

0:39.3

whether generative AI is a good business, and to fire back at those who call him a doomer.

0:45.3

And he's here with us in studio at Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco.

0:49.3

Dario, it's great to see you again. Welcome to the show.

0:52.3

Thank you for having me.

0:53.3

So let's recap the past couple months for you. You said AI could wipe out half of entry-level

0:59.8

white-collar jobs. You cut off windsurf's access to Anthropics top-tier models when you

1:05.6

learned that Open AI was going to acquire them. You asked the government for export controls

1:09.9

and annoyed Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong.

1:13.7

What's gotten into you?

1:14.7

You know, I think I think Anthropic,

1:18.3

myself and Anthropic are always focused on kind of

1:22.2

trying to do and say the things that we believe.

1:25.8

And I think as we've gotten more close to AI systems that are more powerful, I think I've

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