Anthropic CEO: Cancer and Alzheimer's disease will become history in less than a decade

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in the company's IPO roadshow video that cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and mental illness will be "a thing of the past" in less than a decade. He framed risk management as the price of social trust, saying companies that handle AI risks well earn a "license to operate" and the credibility to deliver the technology's benefits. Amodei argued that getting this right could usher in a "miracle age" that solves problems which have plagued humanity for thousands of years. He added that capturing the upside while sustaining a viable business model requires seriously addressing everything that could go wrong with the technology. The remarks come as Anthropic courts public-market investors, tying its long-horizon health claims to a governance pitch.