Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: private AI is "strange", open to handing it to governments
csuwildcat · x · 2026-09-14
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS it's "strange" that AI is being built by a private company, and said he'd be willing to hand the technology over to "the right combination of governments."
- The remarks sparked pushback: some read it as advocating government/international control of frontier AI, others mocked the stance as self-contradictory.
- A rare statement from a frontier-lab CEO on who should own and govern advanced AI.
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