Anthropic Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the "How AI Will Transform Business in the Next 18 Months" panel during INBOUND 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on September 04, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is uneasy about a small group of tech giants having outsized influence over the development and application of AI, as concerns linger about it's effect on the workforce.
In an interview with 60 Minutes on CBS News that aired Sunday evening, Amodei said he was "deeply uncomfortable with these decisions [about AI] being made by a few companies, by a few people."
Amodei has cultivated a reputation for being alarmist about the prospect of AI unleashing major disruptions in the U.S. economy. He argues that AI will erase half of entry-level, professional white-collar jobs in the next five years.
"Without intervention, it's hard to imagine that there won't be some significant job impact there. And my worry is that it will be broad and it'll be faster than what we've seen with previous technology," Amodei said.
Anthropic's chief executive hasn't shied from stepping out of line with the Trump administration. Earlier this year, Amodei criticized a GOP effort to bar states from regulating AI. Then in October, White House AI czar David Sacks attacked Amodei for "fear-mongering" about the path ahead for AI development.
Anthropic's AI is known as "Claude," which it has primarily sold to businesses. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the firm is on pace to turn a profit in 2028, a much faster pace compared to its rival OpenAI. Anthropic is valued at $183 billion.
The company said last week that Claude had been deployed by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to engage in a cyberattack against 30 entities, which it did not identify in a public statement.
