Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is on a public-relations blitz to whitewash his own advocacy in the AI space amid growing backlash. Watching it unfold conjures up the famous Shaggy song, “It Wasn’t Me.”

Much like the philandering character in the iconic hit, who was caught “red-handed creepin’ with the girl next door,” Amodei now expects the public to ignore what they have seen and heard from him regarding his doomerist vision of artificial intelligence — and his related demands for government to regulate his competitors.