Cathie Wood Blames Anthropic CEO for AI Panic as ARK Fund Backs Company

Cathie Wood blamed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for gloomy AI headlines, citing warnings about job losses and a 10% extinction risk, despite ARK Invest’s Venture Fund backing Anthropic. According to BeInCrypto, Wood argued in ARK’s monthly video on Friday that AI adoption remains early, citing nearly $10,000 in monthly AI spending per worker at the top 1% of companies versus $15 for most; she expects labor shortages, not job losses. Axios attributed the extinction-risk estimate to Anthropic safety lead Evan Hubinger, not Amodei; Amodei told Axios in 2025 that he saw a 25% chance things would go “really, really badly.”