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Dario Amodei on the AI Backlash: 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' — and the Fix Is Curing Cancer, Not Saying You Will
In a 2026-08-16 post, Amodei argued the negative turn in public opinion is not caused by AI leaders discussing risk but by decades of institutional distrust — ordinary people "always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over." He explicitly rejects marketing as the remedy: "saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring... The thing that will work is actually curing cancer." He also conceded that "by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven't yet delivered on our big promises... That is totally on us" — a notably unhedged admission, corroborated across Fortune, Quartz and Slashdot.
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