Without naming any firms, Amodei said some companies “pull the risk dial too far.” Photo by Dee Delgado/Getty Images/Postmedia files

Anthropic PBC chief executive Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking on too much risk by committing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, if not more, to develop and support AI systems.

In an interview with the New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Amodei said the industry faces a “real dilemma” from balancing the need to make costly investments in data centres – which can take multiple years to set up – with “uncertainty in how quickly the economic value is going to grow” from AI.

“We as a company try to manage as responsibly as we can,” he said. “And then I think there are some players who are

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