I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversarie… - Dario Amodei

There are many valid disagreements to be had on safety. We certainly had some of those disagreements with them, but that alone is not sufficient to leave. 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 continue to work with a company, to continue to trust the company. 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 thing, they go off and do their thing.

You can't stop the [AI] train. But what you can do is you can steer the train — steer the train so that it doesn't hit the rocks.

The essence of our values, is that we have to find a way to win, in a way that preserves those values. We can't just be a total race to the bottom. We have to have some principles.