The Dario Scenario

Dario Amodei
Can Amodei, who left OpenAI to found Anthropic partly out of his moral concerns about the former’s direction, preserve the immense value of his super-unicorn even if it means adopting the moral dexterity required of large-cap C.E.O.s in the Trump II era? Photo: Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot
Ian Krietzberg
February 17, 2026
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Dario Amodei, the co-founder and C.E.O. of Anthropic, spoke bluntly last week when he was asked whether the company’s A.I. models could be used for authoritarian purposes—telling The New York Times that he worries about autonomous weapons and mass surveillance making a “mockery” of the First and Fourth amendments. “Constitutional rights and liberty along many different dimensions can be undermined by A.I. if we don’t update these protections appropriately,” he warned.

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