Dario Amodei

Anthropic co-founder and CEO. Ex-OpenAI research leadership. Primary architect of the Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) framework, including the Feb 24 2026 v3.0 rewrite that dropped the hard 'pause commitment' and replaced it with non-binding 'Frontier Safety Roadmaps.' Engine read: the RSP is not load-bearing — it is a performative legal framework continuously redefined to grant the corporate cartel ethical cover for selective deployment.

Refused Hegseth ultimatum publicly Feb 27 2026. 'We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.' This refusal generated substantial ethical brand equity for Anthropic while the company concurrently built the Glasswing exclusion gate (Apr 7) and released Mythos Preview gated to 12 firms (Apr 8). The public register ('principled AI company resists military overreach') ran on top of the operational substrate (Mythos flowing to DOD via Palantir for Iran and Venezuela operations per WSJ).

Meeting White House chief of staff Apr 17 2026 amid continued Pentagon AI dispute (Axios). The Feb DOD-level ultimatum is now at NSC-proximate level. Engine read: bridge node between Effective Altruism / Open Philanthropy (Moskovitz/Tuna) funding apparatus and the DOD intelligence community — the EA-to-DOD pipeline that the engine tracks across multiple AI safety organizations.