Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 17, 2026

Duration

1h 10m

Channel

Bloomberg Originals

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Emily Chang sits down with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a wide-ranging interview discussing his San Francisco roots, the race against OpenAI, the Pentagon standoff and AI’s endgame. Watch Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut: https://youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg 00:00 Inside Anthropic 03:34 Dario background 05:51 Leaving OpenAI 07:42 India AI summit 10:45 Enterprise bet 17:22: Big tech funding 19:29 Compute crunch 21:15 Surpassing OpenAI 24:07 Product velocity 24:52 AI discoveries 26:13 Dario’s writing style 28:10 AI and the workforce 36:41 Pentagon standoff 43:29 AI warfare 48:18 Mythos 55:15 Nationalizing AI 58:57 Visit to the White House 59:47 China 1:03:24 Recursive self-improvement 1:05:07 Dario’s favorite book 1:05:49 Civilization collapse 1:07:32 Trust Watch more of The Circuit with Emily Chang: https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLqq4LnWs3olV2nw7GgFjXHvxVc3T5hXXT?sbp=QAE%3D Hosted by high-profile journalist Emily Chang, The Circuit is a fast-paced, dynamic series that lives at the intersection of culture, tech, entertainment, and business. Every week, Chang will go on location to meet the world’s most fascinating founders, influencers, and innovators, conducting intimate interviews and bringing audiences behind the scenes of the most impactful stories, launches, and trends. #anthropic #AI #DarioAmodei #tech #business -------- Like this video? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_confirmation=1 Get unlimited access to Bloomberg.com for just $1.99 your first month: https://www.bloomberg.com/subscriptions?in_source=YoutubeOriginals Bloomberg Originals offers bold takes for curious minds on today’s biggest topics. Hosted by experts covering stories you haven’t seen and viewpoints you haven’t heard, you’ll discover cinematic, data-led shows that investigate the intersection of business and culture. Exploring every angle of climate change, technology, finance, sports and beyond, Bloomberg Originals is business as you’ve never seen it. Subscribe for business news, but not as you've known it: exclusive interviews, fascinating profiles, data-driven analysis, and the latest in tech innovation from around the world. Visit our partner channel Bloomberg News for global news and insight in an instant.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Emily Chang

  host

  Bloomberg journalist and host of Bloomberg Originals’ The Circuit.

• Dario Amodei

  guest

  CEO and cofounder of Anthropic.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Bloomberg Originals, featuring Emily Chang and Dario Amodei, Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview explores Dario Amodei on scaling Anthropic: speed, safety, power, trust Dario Amodei describes running Anthropic amid what he calls a “smooth exponential” acceleration in AI, arguing leaders must respond rationally without yo-yoing between panic and complacency.

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