Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the ‘SNL’ treatment

Saturday Night Live recently featured a sketch where cast member Jane Wickline impersonated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The segment, introduced by Michael Che, satirized the AI industry's warnings about potential dangers. Wickline's portrayal of Amodei, complete with a wig, delivered hesitant answers, at one point confessing, “AI is the devil and I its maker.” The sketch humorously depicted AI executives as acknowledging the risks, with the fictional Amodei stating, “AI is not a weapon, it’s a tool: A tool for building weapons.”

This marks the first time a major sketch comedy show like SNL has directly satirized a specific AI CEO and their public statements on AI risks.