By Dan Milmo
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 11:35:00
Artificial intelligence companies need to be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the CEO of AI startup Anthropic.
Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind chatbot Claude, said he believed AI would become smarter than “most or all humans” in most or all respects and urged his colleagues to “call it like you see it.”
Speaking to CBS News, Amodei said a lack of transparency about the impact of powerful AI would repeat the mistakes of cigarette and opioid companies that have failed to denounce the potential health harms of their own products.
“You could get into the world of the cigarette companies or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers and they didn’t talk about them and certainly didn’t prevent them,” he said.
Amodei warned this year that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs – clerical positions like…
