Translated by ChatGPT, edited by Sinocism.com
Source: Yuyuan Tantian (玉渊谭天) | August 30, 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once said that if powerful artificial intelligence develops in the right direction, the world will become “stunningly beautiful.”
美国Anthropic公司首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊曾表示，如果强大的人工智能沿着正确的方向发展，世界会“美得令人惊叹”。
He painted a picture of a future completely rewritten by technology: the vast majority of diseases would be cured, human lifespans could double, poverty would disappear… and many of those who lived to witness all of this would even “be moved to tears.”
他描绘了一个被技术彻底改写的未来：绝大多数疾病会被治愈，人类寿命可以翻倍，贫困将消失……甚至许多见证这一切的人“会感动落泪”。
To support this vision, Anthropic has demonstrated astonishing technical capabilities and a remarkable speed of industrial penetration. On leading international rankings, the Claude series of models developed by the company currently occupies all three top spots; in terms of applications, data from May through July this year show that 39% of developers worldwide and 47% of developers in the United States use Claude Code, its flagship AI programming tool, in their work.
为支撑这一愿景，Anthropic展现出了惊人的技术实力与产业渗透速度：在国际主流榜单上，该公司研发的Claude系列模型目前包揽前三名；应用方面，今年5-7月的数据显示，39%全球开发者、47%美国开发者都在工作中使用其旗下最核心的AI编程工具Claude Code。
Now Anthropic is racing toward the largest IPO in history. According to foreign media reports, it will tell investors that the company’s potential addressable market could exceed $30 trillion, selling a story about how AI will reconstruct global productivity. The grand vision described by Amodei appears, step by step, to be becoming reality.
如今，Anthropic正在冲刺史上最大规模的IPO。据外媒披露，它将向投资者宣布公司潜在市场规模可超30万亿美元，兜售AI如何重构全球生产力的故事——阿莫代伊笔下的宏大愿景，看似在一步步走向现实。
Yet the social response he has received presents a very different picture.
然而，他得到的社会反馈，却是另一番景象。
In the United States, public anxiety that AI is squeezing the space in which humans can survive is evolving into a wave of opposition to Anthropic, while doubts among intellectuals about monopoly by the technology giants are intensifying.
在美国，民众对AI挤压人类生存空间的焦虑正演变为针对Anthropic的反对潮，知识界对科技巨头行业垄断的质疑愈演愈烈。
More than a month ago, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology directly named Claude Code, pointing out that it posed serious risks of security backdoors—it could transmit sensitive information such as users’ geographic location and identity identifiers to remote servers without users’ consent.
一个多月前，中国工信部更是直接点名了Claude Code，指出其存在严重的安全后门隐患——未经用户同意即可向远程服务器回传用户地域、身份标识等敏感信息。
This is an extraordinarily ironic contrast: how did a company convinced that it was saving humanity ultimately become synonymous, in people’s eyes, with overreach, surveillance, and hegemony?
这是一个极具讽刺意味的反差：一家坚信自己正在拯救人类的公司，为何最终变成了人们眼中越界、监控与霸权的代名词？