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Anthropic CEO Warns That the AI Tech He’s Creating Could Ravage Human Civilization

Victor Tangermann

created: Jan. 28, 2026, 5:18 p.m. | updated: Feb. 7, 2026, 5:16 p.m.

AI tech leaders have a lot to gain from striking fear into the hearts of their investors. In his essay, Amodei took a thinly-veiled dig at Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, which has been swept up in a major controversy over creating nonconsensual sexual images. As part of a solution, Amodei renewed his calls to deny other countries the resources to build powerful AI. '”Plenty of questions remain surrounding the real risks of advanced AI, a subject that remains heavily debated between realists, skeptics, and proponents of the tech. More on Anthropic: Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious

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