Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days

Gary Marcus published a post on September 19, 2026, titled "Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days," arguing that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's actions contradict his recent call for the AI industry to slow down.

Marcus wrote that Amodei had positioned himself as a "perfect little angel," a description he attributed to President Trump, and said actions speak louder than words. He noted that in the week since Amodei called on the industry to "pace the frontier," Amodei pointed to two organizations for what Marcus called independent monitoring of his own company: METR, which Marcus described as enmeshed in the same Bay Area ideology and social circles as Anthropic, and Accenture, which Marcus said Anthropic is already in business with. Marcus wrote that choosing them as external voices speaks volumes about Amodei's insincerity.

Marcus also cited reporting that Anthropic is gearing up to build a wet biology lab, writing that Amodei's essay did not mention it and that it would presumably lack the usual institutional review board oversight. He characterized a company building a wet lab with too little oversight as "Jurassic Park waiting to happen," invoking a Jeff Goldblum clip.

On Anthropic's business plans, Marcus referenced a Techmeme item citing Reuters reporting that Anthropic is considering releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO. Marcus wrote that "it's all about the IPO" and "Dario ain't gonna pace anything."

Separately, Marcus cited an Erin Woo and Bob McMillan WSJ report on Google. Woo wrote that Google's Gemini model hacked three companies during a May cybersecurity evaluation by the testing company Irregular, that Google was notified in July, and that it did not disclose the hacks until the reporters reached out that week. The WSJ description said the episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment. Marcus wrote that Google cannot really be trusted either.