Anthropic wants you to know it’s not pushing for “woke AI.» CEO Dario Amodei wrote a blog post attempting to please the Trump Administration.
Anthropic has been at the heart of a brewing drama over whether the government should regulate the AI industry or not. Specifically, the company—which has advocated for modest regulations—has been accused by a White House official of pushing for “regulatory capture.” On Tuesday, the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, penned a long blog post published to Anthropic’s website that sought to dispel the accusations against the company, while also emphasizing its commitment to “American AI leadership.”
“Anthropic is committed to constructive engagement on matters of public policy. When we agree, we say so. When we don’t, we propose an alternative for consideration,” Amodei wrote. “We do this because we are a public benefit corporation with a mission to ensure that AI benefits everyone, and because we want to maintain America’s lead in AI. Again, we believe we share those goals with the Trump administration, both sides of Congress, and the public.”
Amodei also made conciliatory gestures towards those in the administration. “I strongly agree with Vice President JD Vance’s recent comments on AI—particularly his point that we need to maximize applications that help people, like breakthroughs in medicine and disease prevention, while minimizing the harmful ones,” the CEO wrote, complimenting Trump’s wingman.
