Mr Amodei goes to Canberra: What went down at the Anthropic CEO’s big event
Dario Amodei warned Australian politicians that AI’s risks are real and the timeline is short — and that democracies must win the race to build it.
The chief executive of AI company Anthropic Dario Amodei flew to Australia’s capital on Wednesday to meet the prime minister, the treasurer and a roomful of politicians — and to tell them that the technology his company builds could upend labour markets, supercharge cyberattacks, and arrive faster than any government is equipped to handle.
But he had an important caveat — the window to act has not yet closed.
Speaking at the Futures Forum in Parliament House before an audience of roughly 150, Amodei said the pace of AI development was the defining challenge of the moment.
“The fundamental challenge remains — we know much less than we would like to, but the technology is moving faster than we’d like it,” he said. “So we have to act, but we’re not sure how to act.”
