My message is definitely not "doom is coming." My message is: this is something we should see coming, that we're worried about, and that we need to a… - Dario Amodei

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

The idea that this is cheap marketing is itself cheap marketing. It's part of the disease of Silicon Valley — it's been caught up in this social media world of three seconds.

The figure I most identified with was Leo Szilard, who was the one who first had the idea that there could be a chain reaction. My view is we're not going to get through this with larger-than-life personalities, or figures who try to be at the center of everything. In some ways I actually see Oppenheimer as a failure case — as what should not happen. There are a lot of powerful actors who have interests here, and the only way it's going to end well for everyone is if there are checks and balances everywhere.