
Good Bad Billionaire Season 6 Episode 20
How did the richest people on the planet make their billions?
When they were children, Daniela Amodei and her brother Dario would play games where they'd imagine saving the world. Decades later, the pair founded Anthropic on the belief that artificial intelligence could be one of the most powerful forces in human history. From a $124 million seed round in 2021, Anthropic's valuation has rocketed towards $900 billion, backed by billions from Amazon and Google and partly driven by its chatbot, Claude. Along the way, the company has clashed publicly with the US government over military access to its technology. As Anthropic gears up for what could be the largest IPO in history, Daniela insists it wants to keep humans at the heart of its story. But can a business racing to build ever more powerful AI really be trusted to keep us safe?
On radio
Broadcasts
- Wed 11 Nov 202604:32GMTBBC World Service
- Wed 11 Nov 202613:32GMTBBC World Service except Australasia, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Wed 11 Nov 202618:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Wed 11 Nov 202623:32GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Sat 14 Nov 202609:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Sat 14 Nov 202616:32GMTBBC World Service News Internet
- Sat 14 Nov 202623:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
Podcast
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Good Bad Billionaire
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