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Exclusive: Anderson Cooper asks Anthropic CEO: ‘Do you earnestly believe that AI could kill all humans?’

In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reacts to an employee who quit over concerns that AI could wipe out humanity and discusses his proposal to slow down development of the technology.

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