Anthropic CEO; predicts AI central to CRISPR-scale discoveries. Dario Amodei runs Anthropic, the lab behind Claude and Claude Code. In this corpus he first appears on January 13, 2026 predicting that AI will soon play a central role in CRISPR-scale discoveries, and returns two weeks later saying that AI now writes much of Anthropic’s code and that his country of geniuses may arrive by 2027, statements the recursive-self-improvement storyline records alongside his lab’s own Claude Code writing Claude Cowork.
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Dario Amodei
Anthropic's chief executive, whose public statements on AI-driven discovery, on AI writing the lab's code and on a 2027 country of geniuses recur through the corpus as datable claims from the person running a frontier lab.
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- Welcome to January 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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