The remark made by Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, at the India AI Summit held earlier this year in February, went viral on social media and sparked a political row. In an interview with Bloomberg, Amodei said the summit, which was held in New Delhi and saw the attendance of more than 100 AI leaders, CEOs and CEOs, was “very disorganized.”
The Anthropic CEO responded by questioning the awkward moment between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and him on stage, as they both avoided holding hands like other tech leaders. It is worth noting that Amodei previously worked as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, but left the company with his sister and other senior researchers to found his own company, Anthropic.
However, Congress has now noted Amodei’s observation at this moment. “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in an interview with Bloomberg that the India AI Summit was ‘very disorganized,’” Amitabh Dubey, research and monitoring officer at the All India Congress Committee, said while sharing a post on X.
The BJP responded by saying that the clip had been “edited” and left out the part where Amodei explained that this is the nature of AI summits around the world.
What did Amodei say?
In an interview with Bloomberg, Amodei was asked “what happened” during the moment he rejected Altman as they held hands on stage. That’s why Anthropic’s CEO said: “What happened was that the summit was very disorganized. We all came in at the last minute and they changed the order in which we were standing. Then they took a picture of us and told us all to hold hands.”
However, he added: “If you have ever been to one of these summits, and I’m not saying anything bad about India in particular, but all these kind of international summits involving heads of state are very disorganized.”
Kunj points out Amodei’s statement, BJP slams ‘amended clip’
After the clip containing Amodei’s remarks was released by a Congress research and monitoring officer, the BJP criticized it, alleging that it “easily deletes” the Anthropic CEO’s clarification that he was not targeting India exclusively.
“The India-hating Congress ecosystem is circulating an edited clip to discredit the highly successful AI summit held in Delhi,” said Amit Malviya, BJP’s information and technology in-charge, while responding to the Congress post on X. Malviya accused the opposition party of trying to “underestimate India’s achievements.”
“…An edited video, stripped of explanation, is enough for them to spark anger and score political points,” Malviya said, adding that the summit brought together global leaders, policymakers and industry experts.
“This is what the world saw. Only the Congress ecosystem saw an opportunity to insult India. They will not get it. For them, every Indian success is a problem to be explained away, minimized or distorted,” Malviya claimed.
