Refused to remove contractual prohibitions on Claude being used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons when the Trump DOD demanded unrestricted access in February 2026. After Anthropic was labeled a Pentagon "supply-chain risk," Amodei announced the company had "no choice" but to sue the administration. Framed Claude's safety limits as non-negotiable red lines.
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Dario Amodei
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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI.
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Endorsed Kamala Harris and donated $214K+ to Democratic candidates before 2024 election, including to Biden, Clinton, and the DNC. Wrote a now-deleted Facebook post calling Trump "a serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law." In February 2026 a leaked internal memo showed Amodei told ~2,000 Anthropic staff the Trump administration was hostile to the company because it had not given "dictator-style praise" to Trump and refused to donate to him. He publicly apologized after the memo leaked.