The chief executive of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, Dario Amodei, is putting medicine at the center of the AI debate.
In a recent interview with John Collison, Amodei says large language models (LLMs) already give better advice than nearly all doctors, citing Nobel Prize winners who share the view.
The remarks come amid a wide-ranging discussion on how AI could reshape industries far beyond coding or customer service. Amodei agrees that healthcare is one of the clearest cases where society is “intelligence-limited.”
“I have talked to Nobel Prize-winning biologists who say, I will only, I mean, it sounds a little elitist, but they’ll say, I’ll only go to the top 1% of doctors because the rest of the 99% I can get better advice from an LLM.
You know, it really is true. Doctors are busy, they’re overworked, and just the nature of medical data and medical information, you know, it’s a lot of pattern matching. It’s a lot of the same things, the, you know, the level of consistency and the ability to put together many different facts, I think it’s something that LLMs are quite good at.”
Anthropic is an AI safety and research startup founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers and executives, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. The company specializes in developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable large language models under its “Constitutional AI” framework, a values-oriented training strategy.
As of March 2025, Anthropic closed a $3.5 billion Series E round, valuing the firm at $61.5 billion post‑money. The firm is now targeting a valuation near $170 billion in its next raise.
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