# Dario Amodei **Entity class:** Person / AI executive **Maturity:** Developing ## Role in the source Dario Amodei is Anthropic's chief executive. [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment]] examines his 13 September 2026 CBS answer about possible governance by “the right combination of governments” and his 12 September essay [*We Must Pace the Frontier*](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier). The article interprets these as a proposal for shared governmental oversight of frontier intelligence, while acknowledging his stated concern that a single government could also abuse the technology. The author's disagreement concerns constitutional authorship: which governments, under what authority, with what appeal and exit. It is not a claim that Amodei personally wrote either superintelligence bill or took instructions from Britain. ## Relationships - **Recursive-self-improvement warning:** [[wiki/We Must Pace the Frontier|We Must Pace the Frontier]] and [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] connect Amodei's pacing argument to the broader control debate. - **Executive role:** Dario Amodei leads Anthropic. - **Governance debate:** [[wiki/Cognitive Non-Domination|Cognitive Non-Domination]] tests whether the proposed authority remains contestable; [[wiki/Definitional Valve|Definitional Valve]] tests the power of its categories. - **Source and route:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment]] in [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. - **White House accord:** signed the White House Accord on Superintelligence on 29 September 2026 after a 27 September dinner with Trump; statements, including his September 12 essay, CBS interview and UN Security Council briefing, indexed in [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]]; news in [[news/Frontier AI Leaders Sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence|Frontier AI Leaders Sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The trajectory only needs to continue for a tiny period longer—one or two years, maybe less—to reach what I’ve called a country of geniuses in the data center.” > **— Dario Amodei**, *United Nations Security Council briefing, September 2026* [[reminders/Machine Succession/A Country of Geniuses Is Forming in the Data Center by Dario Amodei|A Country of Geniuses Is Forming in the Data Center by Dario Amodei]] > “This recursive self-improvement could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all.” > **— Dario Amodei**, *We Must Pace the Frontier, September 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Self-Improving AI Could Outrun Human Control by Dario Amodei|Self-Improving AI Could Outrun Human Control by Dario Amodei]] > “It's funny. I agree with [Jacob Coxon's warning that the AI industry is moving too fast] much more than I disagree with him.” > **— Dario Amodei**, *public statement, September 2026* [[reminders/Risk Debate/I Agree With the Warning That the AI Industry Is Moving Too Fast by Dario Amodei|I Agree With the Warning That the AI Industry Is Moving Too Fast by Dario Amodei]]