{
  "id": 15856319,
  "title": "Dario Amodei spent 2,000 words laying out to a critic on X why Anthropic must persist in the AI ‘race to the top’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/dario-amodei-spent-2-000-words-laying-out-to-a-critic-on-x-why",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T06:54:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-anthropic-race-to-top-ai-safety-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, engaged in an extensive exchange with a critic on social media platform X, who accused Anthropic of not living up to its safety commitments. The critic, Nathan Calvin from Encode AI, argued that Anthropic was participating in a race to superintelligence while neglecting AI safety. In response, Amodei penned a nearly 2,000-word rebuttal on X, countering Calvin's claims.\n\nCalvin, the chief strategy officer of Encode AI, a nonprofit AI-safety advocacy organization, detailed nine actions by Anthropic in the past year that he believed contradicted the company's safety commitments. These included signing deals worth over $500 billion in compute power and increasingly relying on Anthropic's AI models, such as Claude. Calvin's post was extensive, exceeding 1,500 words.\n\nAmodei defended his response, stating that while he appreciated Calvin's investigative work in AI safety, he disagreed with many of Calvin's criticisms. He maintained that Anthropic could contribute more to ensuring the safety of the AI industry by remaining at the cutting edge. He listed nine commercial actions taken by Anthropic that, although costly, brought strong safety benefits. These actions included releasing its powerful Mythos model to a select group of cybersecurity partners and restricting the sale of its AI services to Chinese state-controlled entities.\n\nAmodei acknowledged that Anthropic could have improved in handling some of the issues raised by Calvin. He cited a draft bill that Anthropic circulated to Congress, which critics argued could hinder the government's ability to block dangerous AI models. Despite this, Amodei expressed pride in Anthropic's track record and reaffirmed his support for the company's actions. The exchange between Amodei and Calvin occurs at a critical time for AI safety, as recent predictions of an \"AI apocalypse\" have sparked concerns about the potential dangers of increasingly capable AI technology. In response, leading AI figures like Amodei, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Elon Musk of SpaceXAI have pledged to \"pace the frontier,\" advocating for a more cautious approach to AI development to ensure adequate safeguards are in place. Meanwhile, Anthropic, on the verge of an anticipated IPO valued at $2 trillion, reported a third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion.",
  "summary": "Amodei said Anthropic would be best placed to make AI safe by staying at the top of the game.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}