New Delhi: For years, Anthropic occupied an unusual position in the AI industry: a company that publicly acknowledged its own technology could be dangerous while arguing that heavy regulation would do more harm than good. That position has now changed.
In an essay titled ‘Policy on the AI Exponential’, published Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that binding federal regulation of AI in the US is no longer optional—and that the window to get it right is narrowing fast.The essay, running to over 5,000 words, covers everything from drug approval timelines to autonomous weapons to the risk of an AI-enabled seizure of political power. It comes alongside Anthropic releasing a legislative proposal on frontier model testing and a policy framework for job displacement, which the company says it will back financially.
The shift matters because Anthropic is not a peripheral player. Its Claude models are among the most widely used in the world, and Amodei has been one of the more credible voices on AI risk in an industry not known for candour.
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