Jun 3, 2026 – 5.00amThere was a time when Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan was not sold on artificial intelligence. It was early 2010, and his friends (now colleagues) Dario Amodei and Chris Olah were getting excited about its potential.Kaplan, a theoretical physicist, was sceptical until he saw AlphaGo, a program developed by Google to master the ancient board game Go.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Zoe SamiosBusiness reporterZoe Samios covers wagering and the business of sport from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. She was previously the media and telecommunications reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and covered media at The Australian.Fetching latest articles
Jared Kaplan is in the midst of an ideological battle over AI’s future
The Anthropic chief science officer and co-founder says responsibility harnessing the breakneck developments of automation should be front and centre.
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Jared Kaplan of Anthropic champions AI safety-first governance, opposing industry's open and rapid-scaling approaches. Tech leaders face a choice: Anthropic's governance approach versus competitors' speed-first model in foundation adoption.
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