Ryan Mac 🙃(@RMac18):We spent a few months reporting on Dario Amodei, and why he thinks about AI the way he does. What we found was a man — deeply influenced by rationalism, effective altruism and the writings of Ray Kurzweil — who survived a fight with testicular cancer and is now leading a trillion-dollar AI lab. Anthropic's CEO has deep personal convictions on how to develop AI that has made some into believers and others into enemies. And some of those very convictions are being tested now as his company is about to go public.

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2026.11.05 13:12

We spent a few months reporting on Dario Amodei, and why he thinks about AI the way he does. What we found was a man — deeply influenced by rationalism, effective altruism and the writings of Ray Kurzweil — who survived a fight with testicular cancer and is now leading a trillion-dollar AI lab. Anthropic's CEO has deep personal convictions on how to develop AI that has made some into believers and others into enemies. And some of those very convictions are being tested now as his company is about to go public.