A Steady Hand on the Wheel?
Tech CEOs haven’t exactly won over the public in the last few years. Scandals and questionable practices have led to a lack of trust, and the rise of AI hasn’t made anyone feel any better.
Amodei, however, seems to be one of the more level-headed AI CEOs out there in 2025, noting that a failure to put up guardrails on this innovative technology could have a dire impact beyond the job market. Luckily, he’s working on it.
“You want a model to go build your business and make you a billion. But you don’t want to wake up one day and find that it’s also locked you out of the company, for example. And so our sort of basic approach to it is, we should just start measuring these autonomous capabilities and to run as many weird experiments as possible and see what happens.” – Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
The future of AI and its impact on the world remain to be seen, given that the technology is still very much in its infancy. Hopefully cooler heads — like Amodei — can prevail, but it’s a steep mountain to climb when the financial implications are fueling the entire world economy.
