Senator Bernie Moreno Presses Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Over AI Risk Warnings

Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, warned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on October 5 that the company’s public language on advanced AI risk had become too alarmist, escalating a Washington fight over whether frontier labs should emphasize catastrophic danger or national advantage. The letter, reported Monday, criticized what Moreno described as panic-inducing commentary and came as Anthropic is expected to pursue a historic IPO with valuation estimates as high as nearly $2 trillion.