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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei
The Anthropic chief executive, Dario Amodei, has flagged various concerns about its AI models recently. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or be in danger of repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid firms, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.

Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI would become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”.

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