Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refutes external views that he overly pessimistically portrays artificial intelligence. He believes that the public's negative perception of AI is not primarily due to AI leaders warning about risks, but rather stems from a general lack of trust in companies, governments, and the tech industry, suspecting that they will harm public interests in new ways. Amodei points out that the most accurate criticism of AI companies (including Anthropic) is their failure to deliver on their significant promises to benefit the world, and states that Anthropic is working to address this issue. Regarding regulation, he opposes simply equating AI regulation with the concentration of power, and says that Anthropic's policy proposals aim to restrict frontier AI companies while supporting smaller competitors.