Amodei answers Nathan Calvin's criticism: Anthropic's "race to the top"

On 21 October, Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, replied on X to criticism of the company that Nathan Calvin had posted on the 19th. Amodei thanks Calvin for the scrutiny and admits some of the examples were mistakes, but disagrees with the thrust: in Amodei's view, many of the criticisms follow from Anthropic's "race to the top" strategy, which requires being at the technological frontier.

The reply lists nine decisions that, it says, cost Anthropic money and helped safety, among them its role in California's SB 53 and not opening Mythos-class models, which it had from February, to the general public until June. It accepts that three of Calvin's points could have been handled better, and defends the change to its Responsible Scaling Policy. All of this is Amodei's own account, unchecked. The post does not mention the draft federal bill.