@FinanceYF5: 1/7 Anthropic spent $2.75 million last year protecting Dario Amodei, more than four times his base salary. This expense may seem staggering, but it is far from the highest among tech giant CEOs. What deserves more attention is what lies behind it: AI companies are becoming the center of public controversy, and risks are beginning to spread from cyberspace…

1/7 Anthropic spent $2.75 million last year protecting Dario Amodei, more than four times his base salary.

This expense may seem staggering, but it is not the highest among tech giant CEOs. What deserves more attention is what lies behind it: AI companies are becoming the center of public controversy, and risks are beginning to move from the online world into the real world. 👇 https://t.co/XB4DcEx3CC

1/7 Anthropic spent $2.75 million last year protecting Dario Amodei, more than four times his base salary.

This expense may seem staggering, but among tech giant CEOs, it’s not even the highest. What’s more noteworthy behind it is this: AI companies are becoming the center of public controversy, and risks are starting to shift from the online world to the real world. 👇

2/7 According to Anthropic’s IPO filing, Dario Amodei’s base salary in 2025 was $654,000, and his total compensation was $17.96 million.

Personal security expenses accounted for more than 15% of his total compensation, with approximately $97,000 in additional private jet travel expenses classified by the company as part of its security program.

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3/7 Anthropic also spent $1.29 million providing personal protection, residential security, and transportation services for President and Co-Founder Daniela Amodei.

The company has maintained round-the-clock security since 2024. The board said that increased media attention and actual security threats had made stronger protection for the two founders and their families necessary.

4/7 These threats were not confined to documents.

In 2026, a man followed employees into Anthropic’s San Francisco office and claimed that company executives “would be killed”; another person threatened to harm employees’ children, while a customer threatened to come to the office with a gun over a refund dispute.

In August, a Claude user even claimed to have purchased an AR-15 and named Dario as a target.

5/7 The risks facing AI executives are rising rapidly.

Data from security intelligence firm Liferaft shows that digital threats targeting AI executives and data centers increased sevenfold between late February and May 2026.

In April of the same year, a man was also charged with throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home and carrying anti-AI documents advocating the killing of AI executives and investors.

6/7 However, compared with other tech companies, Dario’s security expenses were not the highest:

Meta spent approximately $22.5 million on Mark Zuckerberg, rising to $25.1 million when private jet costs were included; Alphabet spent $8.8 million on Sundar Pichai; Tesla spent approximately $4.8 million on Elon Musk; and Nvidia spent nearly $4 million on Jensen Huang.

7/7 The real shift is not just how much was spent on a particular CEO, but that corporate security is becoming an increasingly common executive benefit.

In 2025, 28.3% of S&P 500 companies provided security benefits for their CEOs, more than double the 13.4% recorded in 2021.

As AI companies become the focus of debates over technological change, job anxiety, and existential risk, public sentiment toward these companies is increasingly likely to spill over onto the founders themselves.