The Scaling Curve: Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the Race to Build and Survive Superintelligence

Stanford was a cathedral at the center of a city, its research programs interwoven with the venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road and the corporate campuses that lined Highway 101. Their careers took them through different worlds: his through the laboratories of Princeton and the AI research groups of Baidu and Google. The model became both the generator and the evaluator, with the constitution as the fixed point of reference, the source of truth against which everything was measured. • • • The first step was for those closest to the technology to simply tell the truth about the situation humanity was in, which he had always tried to do and was now doing more explicitly and with greater urgency.