Dario Amodei Walks Back the 'Decade in a Year' Timeline: 'I Don't Think Today We Can Make Progress at a Rate of 10 Years Per Year'

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In a July 6 STAT News conversation, the Anthropic CEO notably softened the central claim of his 2024 'Machines of Loving Grace' essay, saying his vision of AI compressing a century of biotech into a decade 'might not start to be visible for a decade' and that a 10x-per-year rate isn't achievable today 'for a number of reasons.' Coming from AI's most aggressive timeline optimist, the hedge is the story — a data point for builders weighing how much to bet on near-term scientific acceleration versus incremental tooling wins.