Anthropic is paying top dollar to recruit elite AI researchers, but CEO Dario Amodei is worried that a big paycheck is what’s drawing them in.
Axios reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that Amodei fears some of Anthropic’s newest star hires are motivated more by the salary and equity — the famously generous compensation packages — than by the company’s core mission of AI safety.
It’s a concern with some weight behind it. Top AI researchers are bouncing between labs at an astonishing clip. Thinking Machines, the AI startup, has seen four of its co-founders walk out the door in a year. Google’s Noam Shazeer and John Jumper have reportedly jumped ship to OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively. And Meta is reportedly spending big to poach...