Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged policymakers to speed up the regulation to deal with the risks and opportunities arising from the exponential growth of artificial intelligence.

Amodei’s statement comes in the wake of Anthropic launching ‘Claude Fable 5’, a “safer” version of its Frontier AI model Claude Mythos, for the public. Recently, Anthropic had proposed a global pause on Frontier AI research claiming their Claude LLMs have shown signs of full-recursive self improvement–a feedback loop where an AI system uses its output to make itself better.

In his detailed essay titled “Policy on the AI Exponential”  Amodei has warned that while AI is advancing at a lightning pace, the policies and legislations surrounding it are struggling to match that pace. 

“AI is advancing at a lightning pace—in only four years, AI models have gone from barely being able to write a coherent line of code to writing most of the code at major AI companies.  Similar gains have been made in biology, physics, math, finance, law, translation, and many other fields.  By contrast, policy and especially legislation moves very slowly,” Amodei highlighted in his essay.

He stressed that AI’s scaling laws, which predict an exponential increase in general cognitive capabilities with increasing computing power, now have over a decade of empirical evidence behind them.

Amodei further claimed that if these scaling laws continue for only a year or two longer, then the world could reach what he describes a “Powerful AI, ” or “a country of geniuses in a datacenter”.

Today I’m publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

— Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) June 10, 2026

He argued that within a few years AI can play a major role in shaping the entire policy landscape, in the same way nuclear weapons reshaped geopolitics and the industrial revolution reshaped every economic and social issue. 

The Anthropic CEO described AI’s incredible power, as well as its risks, as undeniable. He pointed to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview as evidence that frontier models pose very real risks to cybersecurity, creating the potential for disruption of the financial sector, critical infrastructure, and national security.  

“Mythos Preview scrambled the global cybersecurity landscape. But its broader significance is that it proves beyond doubt that AI models are now tools of global and national strategic consequence,”  Amodei mentioned

“The cyber risks that Mythos-class models present will not be the last that we must face. I believe that biological risks may soon follow, and that serious AI autonomy risks may not be far behind,” he added. 

Amodei pressed for the need to increase the pace of policies to deal with consequences of rapid developments taking place in the AI.

Amodei has focused on five perennial policy areas that need re-imagining in an ‘AI-engaged world: regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and tax policy, scientific innovation, the balance of power between state and society, and geopolitics. 

He has put forward the suggestions in terms of US policy since Anthropic is an American company, but most of his recommendations can also be relevant to other countries as well.

Apart from this the company has also released a legislative proposal on frontier model testing and a policy framework for job displacement, for which they have planned to provide substantial financial backing.

Meanwhile David Sacks, Co-Chair of the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, reposted an old tweet of him where he had alleged the AI company of using scare-mongering tactics for a regulatory capture.

“About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it.” tweeted David Sacks.

About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it. https://t.co/fHY7uktiPR

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) June 11, 2026

In April Anthropic warned that their frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude Mythos can pose grave cybersecurity risks, following which David criticized the company, referring to their warnings as “scare tactics” and disguised “sales pitch”.

Also Read: Anthropic Has a History of Scare Tactics: David Sacks on Claude Mythos