Anthropic asks job candidates in culture interviews whether they would support abandoning the company’s AI ambitions for safety even if that drove the share price to zero. CEO Dario Amodei has questioned whether recent hires joined for the right reasons. The company previously declined a deal that would have given the U.S. government unrestricted use of its technology, losing some government contracts, and has restricted access to its most capable model, Mythos, on safety grounds. Anthropic is p

2026-08-24

Anthropic asks job candidates in culture interviews whether they would support abandoning the company’s AI ambitions for safety even if that drove the share price to zero. CEO Dario Amodei has questioned whether recent hires joined for the right reasons. The company previously declined a deal that would have given the U.S. government unrestricted use of its technology, losing some government contracts, and has restricted access to its most capable model, Mythos, on safety grounds. Anthropic is private, so the net revenue impact of these decisions is unclear.