Dario Amodeis strange position

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, who develops the frontier LLM Claude.ai. He therefore has a very active role in the fast development of artificial intelligence.

At the same time, he warns loudly of the consequences of said AI development. I'm not claiming these two are mutually exclusive, but it does seem to be a strange position to be in.

Dario believes in a "race to the top" (Source), where everybody benefits rather than in a "race to the bottom", where everybody is doomed.

Quotes

"„I could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10–20 % in the next one to five years." – Interview with Axios, Mai 2025

"AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we're going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it. AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do." – CNN Interview with Anderson Cooper, Mai 2025

"We're not trying to say we're the good guys and the others are the bad guys. We're trying to pull the ecosystem in a direction where everyone can be the good guy." – TIME Magazine Interview, Mai 2024

I think we’re going to see models trained in the next year are going to be about $1 billion… And then 2025, 2026, we’re going to go to $5 billion or $10 billion. – Business Insider Interview, May 2024