Lantern Interviews

Dario Amodei on Squawk on the Street

Walmart Beats, OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei Talk Exclusively to CNBC 2/19/26

Feb 19, 2026 · 44 min

A candid, concise acknowledgment that AI may destroy more jobs than it creates, but it adds little to Amodei’s much fuller discussions of labor displacement elsewhere. Skip unless you want the sharpest sound-bite version of his position.

I can't guarantee that more jobs will be created than are destroyed. We have to make that true. We have to figure out how to make that true. And it's going to be a challenge.
from this episode

Dario Amodei participates through a brief interview clip focused on AI-driven job displacement. The episode otherwise consists primarily of Squawk on the Street commentary and a separate excerpt featuring Sam Altman.