Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed "inaccurate claims" about the artificial intelligence startup's policy stances on Tuesday after repeatedly facing criticism from David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar.
Amodei said the company is aligned with the Trump administration across "key areas of AI policy," and that it is interested in working with "anyone serious about getting this right."
"I fully believe that Anthropic, the administration, and leaders across the political spectrum want the same thing: to ensure that powerful AI technology benefits the American people and that America advances and secures its lead in AI development," Amodei said in a statement.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI executives, including Amodei, who left the company over concerns about safety. It's one of the startups at the center of the AI boom, and its valuation has swelled to $183 billion in just four years.
The company caught the attention of Sacks last week after Jack Clark, one of Anthropic's co-founders and its current head of policy, published an essay called "Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear," which sparked a debate over AI regulation online.
Sacks criticized the essay and accused Anthropic of "running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering," according to a post on X. He said the company is "principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem."