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Daniela Amodei

President and Co-Founder, Anthropic

Search every verified Daniela Amodei interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Daniela Amodei, president and co-founder of Anthropic, appeared in two interview programs in late 2026. On July 6, she and her brother Dario Amodei spoke with Walter Isaacson about their decision to leave OpenAI and found Anthropic, describing their shared vision for building AI with a focus on safety and ethics. She discussed Anthropic’s stance on military applications, including red lines drawn with the Pentagon, and expressed concerns about scaling AI systems, saying she was "super freaked out" by the potential for models to surpass human capability. She also explained the company’s work on reducing sycophancy in its models. On October 22, Amodei participated in two conversations with Arianna Huffington. She discussed the need to broaden the AI conversation beyond risk mitigation to include human development, stating that concerns about AI anxiety are real but only part of the story. She noted her worry that AI could become so politicized that it hinders productive societal discussion, and she emphasized the importance of making AI governance inclusive rather than concentrated in a single leader. She also addressed Anthropic’s no-ads commitment, saying that advertising in AI products, particularly those handling sensitive personal data, would feel disrespectful.

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“My personal view is that we're coming off the back of this time in history where technology in the social media age has largely been used to disintermediate humans from one another. Instead of you and I going to have an iced coffee together in person, we're messaging on Snapchat or Instagram, instead of people going and forming communities in person with the people that live in their neighborhood, they're writing ang”

“Other than my kids, worrying that artificial intelligence will become such a politicized topic that it will be hard for us as a broader society to have the type of important conversation that you and I are having right now. This is going to go better if we all feel like this is something we're doing together versus it happening to us.”

“I really think for young people coming out of college, I would continue to say that the qualities that we most look for at a place like Anthropic are an ability to communicate well, to relate to other people, to have empathy, to be flexible, right? Because these AI models are really changing the nature of work. So much of what we have seen from the research that we've done is models are still predominantly supplement”

“I think a key difference here is that claude.ai remains for 18-year-old users and above only. So, individual students below the age of 18 won't have access to the tool directly. And I think this isn't because we necessarily feel, you know, worried that this is, you know, a terrible thing to give to kids, but I think the reality is we just don't know enough about AI's impact on the developing brain for Anthropic to fe”

“Look, if you pick a business model that fundamentally conflicts with your values, you're going to have a hard time, right? Either you betray your own values or you become irrelevant. And so, when we thought about it, we said, 'Look, you know, we've seen the world of social media, the consumer world, it really seems to, you know, encourage engagement, even addiction, you know, the slop we've seen with AI video models.”

“When you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are, when you feel that they're not honest. That makes it very hard to, you know to continue to work with the company to continue to trust the company and look at the end of the day why argue with someone when you don't have the same vision and you don't trust them? The way to resolve it is you go off and do your th”

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