Amid a string of cyber security related incidents reinforcing public concerns about AI, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei was parodied on Saturday Night Live. Mr Amodei, who has become one of the most recognisable executive figures of the AI boom, was portrayed by comedian and actress Jane Wickline during the Weekend Update segment. “I may have been alarming in my recent interviews but I want to assure you that if we can pressure lawmakers to create guardrails, we will be able to stop me,” the actor said during the skit. Michael Che then asked how the general public could be reassured that AI “isn't going to kill us”.Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI pic.twitter.com/HIem3WP5DX— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) September 27, 2026“Sam Altman and myself, as well as all the major players, we've talked about this extensively and we are all on the same page here, we do not condone what we are doing,” Wickline answered. The parody shows how the concerns about AI have spilt over into everyday discourse. Most of the concerns in the US about AI revolve around fears of what it might do the labour market as well as the potential environmental impact due to the proliferation of data centres. In recent months, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Alphabet-owned Google have all acknowledged that their various AI models have somehow escaped their digita...
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