The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Daniela Amodei emerges in this interview as a Steward whose leadership is defined by principled caution, institutional responsibility, and long-horizon thinking on behalf of both Anthropic and society. She consistently frames decisions, from compute procurement to the Mythos rollout to wealth redistribution, through the lens of what she calls being the best version of the company every day.
“I don't necessarily think I would say we jettisoned something. I almost think if you think of like a person, if you think of yourself like 20 years ago, would you be like, was there a value that I jettisoned? You might be like, well, I think maybe my thinking evolved on how to do something, right?”
“Say right now is just the step up in the capabilities of the models. And then all of 2024, 2025, Agents was kind of this word that was thrown around. I almost feel like it lost meaning. But I think this is truly the first time we've seen Claude capable of significant a gentic abilities. Okay.”
“We are in a library. Yeah, Anthropic is such a unique company, and I feel like a library speaks to the research roots of anthropic, but in general, I think we're very well read. Like people at the company. Very multidisciplinary.”
“Constitutional AI is this idea that our researchers sort of invented. And the reason we came up with it is that the previous techniques used for training LLMs essentially was a reward function system. So basically if you ask it a question, if it answers the question correctly, you give it a reward.”
Bloomberg Talks: “Anthropic President Daniela Amodei Talks the Future of Claude”
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