Anthropic Asks Candidates About Share Value Crash to Zero

Axios reporter Madison Mills posted that Anthropic includes a direct question in its culture interviews asking candidates how they would respond if the company's future share value dropped to zero. The linked Axios article states Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried employees are joining the AI lab for the wrong reasons. Multiple X users quoted or replied to the post. Some described the practice as a loyalty test or cult-like screening. Others, including Gary Marcus and Miles Brundage, noted it as an effort to understand employee motivations or as a reasonable screen already in use at the company.