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AI Labs: Are Anthropic really the good guys?

May 6, 2026 · 27m

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants his AI lab to be a more safety conscious alternative to OpenAI. But Anthropic’s business selling AI to enterprises is booming, and it’s rolling out increasingly powerful models - the latest is claimed to be so dangerous it can’t be released to the public. So can Anthropic win the battle of the AI labs and still claim to be the good guys of AI? Murad Ahmed speaks to Cristina Criddle, FT reporter in San Francisco covering AI, and John Thornhill, the FT’s innovation editor. FT articles free to read: Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’ Anthropic’s breakout…