Daniela Amodei: The price of AI

As children, Daniela Amodei and her brother Dario played games where they imagined saving the world. Decades later, the pair co-founded Anthropic on the belief that artificial intelligence could become one of the most powerful forces in human history.

Journalist Zing Tsjeng and BBC business editor Simon Jack follow Daniela’s path from literature graduate to president of a company now preparing for what could be the biggest IPO ever. Daniela says she wants to keep humans at the heart of the AI story. Yet Anthropic’s prospectus warns its technology could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”. So can the business she helps to run really be trusted to keep us safe?

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