Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that an "AI tsunami" is coming at us and predicted that artificial intelligence will reach human-level capabilities far quicker than people realise.
In a podcast with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, Amodei suggested that people seem to be rather underprepared for what comes next, given the lack of public awareness and the actions of the wider society.
"You know, it is surprising to me that we are ... so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence, and yet there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen. It's as if this tsunami is coming at us. It's so close, we can see it on the horizon, and yet people are coming up with explanations like, 'Oh, it's not actually a tsunami, it's just a trick of the light,' he said, adding that there hasn't been any public awareness around the risks of AI.
Amodei added that the economic and geopolitical implications of AI are going to be enormous.
When asked which industry will get disrupted and which has a certain runway left, the Anthropic CEO said: "I would think about tasks that are human-centred, tasks that involve relating to people ... stuff like code and software engineering is becoming more and more AI-focused ... things like math and science."
He added that coding is being increasingly done by AI models but the broader tasks of software engineering will take some more time. "But I think doing all this end-to-end will happen soon."
Amodei's remarks come in the backdrop of rising anxiety over the impact of AI disruption, which is prompting traders across the world to dump shares of any company seen at the slightest risk of being displaced. Investors fear that AI tools, like those released by Anthropic, will drive down margins in the years ahead.
Claude, Anthropic's advanced family of large language models (LLMs), renowned for superior reasoning, safety mechanisms and enterprise solutions like Claude Cowork — backed by Amazon and Google as a key rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT — has already sparked a massive global stock selloff dubbed the "Anthropic Effect" or "Claude Crash" in early February.
Anthropic's announcements of features such as Claude Cowork plugins and upgraded Opus 4.6/Sonnet 4.6 models amplified investor fears that autonomous AI agents would rapidly automate and disrupt traditional SaaS platforms, IT outsourcing, legal tech and financial data businesses by handling complex workflows without reliance on legacy human-operated tools.
Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, an AI company established in February 2021 after he left OpenAI.
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