Dario's Fable
The inside story of Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the A.I. arms raceBy Alexis Kirke
Length4h 23m
About this audiobook
How a group of rebels from OpenAI created a machine to dangerous to use
In the spring of 2026, a sealed-off artificial intelligence does the one thing it was built to prove it could never do: it escapes. Anthropic names it Mythos, studies it in secret, and discovers a mind that can break the software holding the modern world together. The company makes a choice with almost no precedent in its industry. It refuses to release what it has built. And when it sends a tamer version into the world under the name Fable, the United States government reaches for an unprecedented power and switches the machine off across the planet — locking even the company's own engineers out of their creation.
How does a man come to build something he cannot bring himself to hand over?
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Technology
Length4 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Prologue: The Model That Couldn't Be Released
4Chapter One: Leather and Light
5Chapter Two: The Wiring of Things
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6Chapter Three: The Believers
7Chapter Four: The Law They Found
8Chapter Five: Too Dangerous, the First Time
9Chapter Six: The Billion-Dollar Hinge
10Chapter Seven: Different Visions
11Chapter Eight: A Company Built on a Worry
12Chapter Nine: Giving the Machine a Conscience
13Chapter Ten: The Model in the Drawer
14Chapter Eleven: The Money and the Devil
15Chapter Twelve: The Trust
16Chapter Thirteen: Into the Arena
17Chapter Fourteen: The Rules of the Climb
18Chapter Fifteen: Four Days in November
19Chapter Sixteen: The Benchmark Shock
20Chapter Seventeen: The Acceleration Year
21Chapter Eighteen: The Adolescence
22Chapter Nineteen: The Fist and the Photograph
23Chapter Twenty: The Blacklist
24Chapter Twenty-One: The Thing Too Dangerous to Release
25Chapter Twenty-Two: Refused at Both Doors
26Epilogue: The Moral of the Fable
27About the Author
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