Dario Amodei: a tentative 1–3-year horizon

‘If you made me guess, it's like one to two years, maybe one to three years. It's really hard to tell’

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AMODEI: "I, my, I mean, you know, m- m- my guess for that is, you know, th- there's, there's a lot of problems that are basically like we can do this when we have the country of geniuses in a data center. Um, and so, you know, my, my, my, my, my picture for that is, you know, again, if you, if you, if you, if you know, if you made me guess, it's like one to two years, maybe one to three years. It's really hard to tell. I have a, I have a strong view ninety-nine, ninety-five percent that like all this will happen in ten years. Like that's, I think that's just a super safe bet. Yeah. And then I have a hunch this is more like a fifty/fifty thing, that it's gonna be more like one to two, maybe more like one to three. So one to three years?"

Source: Dwarkesh Patel · Feb 13, 2026 · 37s clip