Anthropic founder Dario Amodei calls India ‘central’ to AI’s next phase

NEW DELHI: India will play a “central role” in shaping both the opportunities and safeguards around advanced artificial intelligence, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Thursday, as the company announced its India expansion.


Anthropic has opened an office in Bengaluru and appointed Irina Ghose as managing director for India. The company also said it has entered partnerships with major Indian enterprises, including Infosys.




Speaking at the AI Summit, Amodei said AI models are only “a small number of years” away from surpassing most humans at most tasks. He described the trajectory of AI over the past decade as exponential, akin to a “Moore’s Law for intelligence.”


Such capability, he said, could help cure long-standing diseases, improve health outcomes and lift billions out of poverty, particularly across the Global South. At the same time, he flagged risks related to autonomous behaviour, misuse by individuals or governments, and economic displacement.


Amodei said Anthropic is working with Indian nonprofits to apply its models to digital infrastructure, education, agriculture and health. The company is also collaborating with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to evaluate model performance across Indian languages and locally relevant tasks.


He added that Anthropic would share insights from its Economic Futures programme with policymakers to help assess AI’s economic impact and support evidence-based policy responses.