Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy | TIME
I n the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO, had just finished training a new chatbot that was far more powerful than anything he had seen before. The team working on it at Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters were in awe of their creation, which they christened Claude. Releasing Claude, Amodei knew, could earn fame and fortune for Anthropic, a roughly 50-person startup that had only launched the previous year. But he was worried about the potential consequences of unleashing the AI upon the world—so worried, in fact, that he ultimately decided not to, opting instead to continue internal safety testing. Some three months later, a rival lab, OpenAI, launched a similar product called ChatGPT. It set off a frenzy of hype and investment that has reshaped the entire tech industry. Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs would see that kind of missed opportunity as the regret of a lifetime. But for Amodei, it was
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