The New York Times published a piece by David Streitfeld on September 17 examining Dario Amodei, the Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, through the lens of his own writing. The headline frames him as producing “awesome and alarming” visions of artificial intelligence, and the subtitle ties his collected essays to why some people are worried about the technology.
Amodei has co-authored dozens of scholarly papers over his career and more recently turned to informal essays aimed at a general audience, a shift the Times uses as its entry point. The paper did not make the full article available without a subscription, so the specifics of Streitfeld’s analysis, and any passages he singles out from Amodei’s essays, remain behind that wall.
What is clear from the framing alone is that one of the industry’s most prolific public explainers is now also becoming a subject of scrutiny for the ideas he chooses to publish. Anthropic, one of the most closely watched AI labs, has leaned on Amodei’s essays as informal policy statements in the past.
The New York Times, David Streitfeld, published September 17, 2026.
