ClaimsDaniela Amodei

“we're actually very bottle-necked on engineering talent right now.”

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic president, interview 4 March 2022 Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic (Future of Life Institute)

Factual Field building and careers

As of November 2022, the organisation Daniela Amodei was speaking for was very bottlenecked on engineering talent.

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Reasoning

Internal talent bottlenecks are known only to the organisation.

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Daniela Amodei, “As of November 2022, the organisation Daniela Amodei was speaking for was very bottlenecked on engineering talent.” (said 4 March 2022). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_8394ac817d80, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8394ac817d80

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