Amodei vs. Altman: How the Race for AI Dominance Is Increasing the Risks

You may be able to choose your friends, but you sometimes meet your enemies through work. Such as here: New Delhi, India, Feb. 19 of this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi invites the heads of the major tech companies onto the stage for a group photo at the end of the AI summit he hosted. He wants to demonstrate unity, to show that they have achieved something over the past few days: Artificial intelligence, he hopes, is to become the engine of growth for his country and the world.

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Standing next to Modi is Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, at that point the world’s leading AI company. Dario Amodei is placed one spot over. Once OpenAI’s head of research and one of Altman’s most important and best engineers, Amodei now runs Anthropic, OpenAI’s greatest rival in the race for superintelligence.

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