Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is concerned that some new hires are more focused on big paychecks than building safe and human-friendly AI, as tech companies compete for top engineers using high salaries and flashy job titles. Amodei worries this could pull attention away from Anthropic's core mission. The race for AI talent has led Anthropic to bring in stars like Google's John Jumper, while OpenAI has picked up Google's Noam Shazeer and a key researcher from Thinking Machines Lab. Many engineers want to cash in now, since rapid changes in AI could make their skills outdated soon, but Amodei hopes the drive for money doesn't overshadow why people join these teams in the first place.