Daniela Amodei Says Curiosity Is Underrated (View From The Top, Stanford GSB; speaker-labelled transcript)

Daniela Amodei · 29 Jun 2026

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Curiosity and the drive to have impact, across disciplines, are underrated qualities.

Their wordsthis concept that the ability to be curious and learn, across a lot of disciplines. To have a strong foundation of wanting to have impact, regardless of the area that you’re working on, I think that’s an underrated quality.
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Anthropic was started to run towards something, an organisation with safety and responsibility at the forefront, not away from something.

Their wordswe’re running towards something, versus running away from something. We had this vision in our heads of wanting to create an organization where the values that matter to us around safety, around responsibility, were the kind of forefront of what we were doing.
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The highest-level framing for Anthropic is taking radical responsibility for the technology it develops.

Their wordsI think to us, the kind of highest level of framing, is just taking a form of radical responsibility for the technology that we’re developing.
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Safety and commercial success conflict less than you would expect.

Their wordsI think in general, the two don’t come into conflict as much as you would expect.
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AI is going to change which jobs are available and what people do in them.

Their wordsAI is going to change what types of jobs are available and what types of jobs people do.
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Humans like to be with other humans, and that very real phenomenon will matter as AI changes work.

Their wordsultimately, there’s this very real phenomenon, which is that humans like to be with other humans.
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Following something you really care about is the most important thing a person can do.

Their wordsI truly think following something that you really care about, something that you are passionate about, is the most important thing you can do.
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Sensible regulation will need to be part of the story for AI.

Their wordsI think sensible regulation will need to be part of the story for artificial intelligence.
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People should hold companies accountable for using their data carefully, because it is very personal.

Their wordsI bluntly think people should hold companies accountable for using their data carefully, because it is very personal.

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