Dario Amodei Gets Flak Both as a Doomer and a Regulatory Capturer, and Why That May Be Unfair
menhguin · x · 2026-09-13
A thread examining the contradictory criticism aimed at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: he is simultaneously attacked as a fanatical decel doomer and as dishonest, pursuing regulatory capture — with the poster suggesting personal animus toward Sam Altman and China underlies much of it.
The author argues labs' leadership faced a genuinely hard spot during the AGI race: safety advocacy benefits them commercially, yet they may still hold a sincere belief in AGI risk and are genuinely thinking about how to reduce it before a major catastrophe.
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