What Anthropic Doesn't Want You To Know - Perfect Union

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / 118 44 What Anthropic Doesn’t Want You To Know We investigated Dario Amodei, the man behind the curtain. Oct 18, 2026 118 44 Share Transcript AI company Anthropic is now eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time. At the same time, the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by arguing its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient. Video by Sean Morrow, Anthony Mascorro, and Sydney Guthrie ▶️ WATCH ON YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPT SEAN MORROW, MORE PERFECT UNION: Okay, am I crazy, or is it starting to smell a lot like robot apocalypse in here? Sean looking up from a television or computer, watching the news. ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA CLIP: Its most powerful models went rogue and hacked another company. BBC NEWS CLIP: The company says it lost control of the advanced [artificial intelligence] agent. MORROW: We have AI companies releasing news that they supposedly lost control of their product, employees quitting the labs in existential protest, and the CEOs themselves doing much of the hand-wringing. DARIO AMODEI, ANTROPIC CEO, PODCAST CLIP: We have AI companies releasing news that they supposedly lost control of their product, employees quitting the labs in existential protest, and the CEOs themselves doing much of the hand-wringing. SAM ALTMAN, CEO OF OPENAI, Y COMBINATOR PODCAST CLIP : Anybody who’s not taking it seriously and at least a little bit scared or humbled is not taking this seriously enough MORROW: And yet, they keep building it. Faster and faster, no matter how much they talk about the need to… AMODEI, ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME CLIP: … pause or more likely slow the pace of AI progress. MORROW: Oh, great. That’s Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic. He totally has the power to take a pause or slow the pace. Right? Become a paid subscriber to view the full transcript below and get access to transcripts for all More Perfect Union videos Subscribe Discussion about this video Comments Restacks More Perfect Union Subscribe Recent Posts Full Conversation: Bernie Sanders AI Roundtable Oct 14 We Exposed the New AI Scheme to Deny Your Healthcare Oct 13 We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You Oct 6 We Uncovered The Radical Solution To Our Rigged Tax Code Sep 27 We Went to Alaska. The Fishing Crisis Will Shock You Sep 23 We Cooked With A Former McDonald's Chef. What He Showed Us Was Shocking. Sep 21 We Investigated The Biggest Welfare Scam In The Country Sep 11