Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei acknowledged that the technology industry has misled the public about the dangers of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology poses real risks that could threaten humanity if urgent measures are not taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie to you: there are real dangers. And I think for too long the industry has lied to people about the risks of this technology,\u201d Amodei said in an interview with CBS News\u2019 Sunday Morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The executive also acknowledged that he had not fully understood what it would look like for AI to advance as rapidly as it has, describing its development as an exponential curve that is becoming increasingly steep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amodei said the situation does not mean people should panic or shut down AI entirely, but called it \u201ca warning sign\u201d that the industry needs to slow down. His comments come after former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon warned that the companies are \u201cbetting with our lives\u201d by developing self-improving superintelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In response to the concerns, Amodei said Anthropic will give independent evaluators permanent access to its models. He also backed federal regulation, including the possibility of a mandatory \u201coff switch\u201d capable of shutting down dangerous AI systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Amodei rejected a total ban on superintelligence, arguing that giving up its potential benefits, including possible medical cures, would not be the right approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Anthropic CEO also said he feels \u201cuncomfortable\u201d with such powerful technology being developed by private companies. He suggested that AI governance could involve \u201ca combination of democratically elected governments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf we build it the right way, I think the probability of something bad happening is very low. If we build it the wrong way, the probability of something bad happening is very high,\u201d Amodei concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei acknowledged that the technology industry has misled the public about the dangers of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology poses real risks that could threaten humanity if urgent measures are not taken. \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie to you: there are real dangers. And I think for too long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":523515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-523514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2cbM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_5734.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Technology"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_5734.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}