United Kingdom, Dec. 6 -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that parts of the AI industry are taking on excessive financial risk.

Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Amodei said companies committing hundreds of billions of dollars to data-centre buildouts face a "real dilemma," because the economic value of AI may not scale quickly enough to justify those investments.

The Claude head noted that while data centres take years to construct, the timing of revenue growth is highly uncertain, creating conditions where some firms are "YOLO-ing" into decisions that could backfire.

Though Amodei declined to name specific companies, his remarks clearly alluded to rivals such as OpenAI, which has committed around $1.4 trillion to ...