Anthropic CEO Rejects Claim His AI Warnings Fueled Backlash

The public's view of AI is negative, Amodei acknowledged, calling it "a big problem." Warnings from him and other executives about possible risks did not create that negativity, he said. "I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust," Amodei said. "I think that ordinary people don't trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over."

On regulation, Amodei argued that Baker presented "a false choice" between distributing AI widely with no regulation and leaving the technology in the hands of a few companies under regulation.

Separately, Fairground AI Creator TV, the first free ad-supported streaming channel built entirely from AI content, launched last week. Early reviews were harsh; Futurism called it an "AI slop channel" broadcasting "abominations." The reviews may be beside the point: the channel's economics depend on filling enough hours with content cheap enough to produce, and even modest ad rates generate a profit across a large volume of inventory, PYMNTS reported. AI production eliminates most of the added cost of another hour of programming, because a new episode does not require hiring a cast or renting a set the way conventional television does, the report said.