
Andrew Ross Sorkin didn’t waste any time getting to the question on many people’s minds this morning when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared on-stage in Lower Manhattan with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan and a freshly-minted Anthropic partner. “Is the freakout over AI-enabled cyberattacks warranted?” the CNBC host and veteran New York Times‘ business journalist asked.
Both men paused. The crowd laughed. Amodei looked over at Dimon, who did what powerful people do when the honest answer is uncomfortable: He began talking around it, at length, with great authority.