Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said it's important to be honest
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When Nvidia’s CEO and peers privately press Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on “extreme” risk talk, it shows the alignment debate has moved from Twitter to state-level negotiation. If you’re building on frontier models, assume risk narratives will increasingly shape access, regulation, and which labs are politically favored for sensitive workloads.
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