<figure><img src="https://i.insider.com/6ab92234d15f8a572974b20f?format=jpeg" height="2667" width="4000" alt="Dario Amodei speaking by videoconference at the UN"><figcaption>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was the butt of the AI jokes on "Saturday Night Live."<p class="copyright">UNGA</p></figcaption></figure><ul class="summary-list"><li>Dario Amodei has a split personality and wants the world to save humanity from himself…</li><li>…that is, if you believe actor Jane Wickline's portrayal of the Anthropic CEO on "SNL."</li><li>The real Dario Amodei has called for government regulation of frontier AI companies.</li></ul><p><a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wash-u-cio-says-openai-and-anthropic-are-in-trouble-2026-9">Dario Amodei</a> spent Saturday night arguing with himself on national television. Well, sort of.</p><p>The Anthropic CEO was spoofed last night<strong> </strong>by Jane Wickline in her first season as a repertory player<strong> </strong>on<strong> </strong>"Saturday Night Live," playing Amodei as a bumbling megalomaniac struggling to explain why his own technology won't end the world.</p><p>In Wickline's portrayal, Amodei has two personalities: one media-trained and the other frighteningly not. Several times during the segment, the two personalities talk to each other.</p><p>When Weekend Update host Michael Che asks Wickline about the <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/solopreneurs-embrace-ai-pros-cons-helps-boost-growth-client-relations-2026-1">pros of AI</a>, the two Amodeis exchange words.</p><p>"Land the plane, Dario," the media-trained one says.</p><p>"I can't," says the other.</p><div id="1790521601636" data-styles="default-width" data-embed-type="youtube" data-script="" class="" data-type="embed"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Nvne3LzBls?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" title="Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity – SNL"></iframe></div><p>Earlier this month, the real Dario Amodei published a very grave essay on his personal website, in which he said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-slow-ai-safety-essay-openai-hugging-face-hack-2026-9">AI models</a><strong> </strong>were quickly getting out of control<strong> </strong>and argued for a coordinated slowdown among frontier AI companies and for government regulation.</p><p>His essay came at the fever pitch of the AI doomsday debate, which heated up a few days earlier when former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit the company and embarked on a media tour, warning that AI labs were "gambling with our lives."</p><p>President Donald Trump, for his part, mocked Amodei in a Truth Social post, accusing him of "pretending to be a 'perfect little angel.'" Trump has signaled strong disinterest in regulating AI, though he did pledge last week to create an "<a target="_self" rel="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-regulation-slowdown-anthropic-dario-amodei-9-2026"><u>AI Force</u></a>" that would "watch over" AI companies.</p><p>In recent weeks, Amodei has been stridently promoting Anthropic breakthroughs in medical research and protein structure, and has stopped making dire predictions about an AI doomsday.</p><p>The AI safety warnings<strong> </strong>have so far failed to convince a plurality in Washington or Silicon Valley that the development of the tech should be paused or slowed.</p><p>Still, that didn't stop "SNL."</p><p>"AI is the devil and I its maker!" Wickline as Amodei said on the show.</p><p>The segment drew at least one fan in the AI world: <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/ylecun/status/2104219646715154744">Yann LeCun</a>, Meta's former chief AI scientist and a longtime critic of AI doomerism, responded<strong> </strong>to a clip of Wickline's Amodei impression on X with a string of laughing emojis.</p><div class="read-original">Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/snl-skit-mocks-dario-amodei-ai-doomsday-predictions-2026-9">Business Insider</a></div>
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