‘AI will be superior at everything’: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explains why

“What the radiologists do is that they walk the patient through the scan and they kind of talk to the patients. So the most highly technical part of the job is going away, but there is still some kind of demand for that kind of underlying human skill,” he added.

Amodei also noted that while this dynamic may not apply uniformly across all fields, AI’s development should be assessed based on evidence and integrated into society step by step.

Amodei told Kamath that human-focused roles will continue to be relevant even as AI capabilities grow. However, according to him, radiology shows how automation can reshape work rather than eliminate it.

When asked whether AI considers itself conscious, Amodei said the issue remains unresolved. “This is one of the mysterious questions that we don’t have answers to. We don’t know what human consciousness is, and therefore we don’t know if AI have it,” he told Kamath.

Amodei added that consciousness could be an emergent trait of highly complex systems capable of reflecting on their own decisions. “I do think that when our AI systems get advanced enough, I suspect they will have something that resembles consciousness or moral significance,” he said

However, he said he does not see AI systems as fundamentally different from the human brain in any essential sense, and he anticipates that future models may eventually cross that boundary.