Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for stronger U.S. AI safeguards, warning that autocratic regimes like China and Russia could use artificial intelligence to enhance their control and military capabilities.
What Happened: During an interview with Hard Fork that was released on Saturday, Amodei expressed growing concerns about China’s rapid AI advancements, stating that the country is catching up to U.S. frontier AI labs faster than expected.
While he downplayed commercial competition, Anthropic CEO highlighted national security risks.
“We have these autocracies like China and Russia, and I’ve always worried, I’ve worried, maybe for a decade that AI could be an engine of autocracy,” Amodei said. “If enforcers are no longer human, that starts painting some very dark possibilities.”
Amodei argued that AI development in China is not purely commercial but …
