Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an Italian-American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude AI. He was previously the vice president of research at OpenAI.[1][2]
Dario Amodei | |
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 Amodei in 2023 | |
| Born | 1983 (age 41–42) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Co-founder / CEO of Anthropic |
| Relatives | Daniela Amodei (sister) |
| Awards | Time 100 (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior of Neural Circuits (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael J. Berry William Bialek |
| Website | darioamodei |
Early life
editDario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California in 1983. His sister, Daniela Amodei was born four years later. Their father was Riccardo Amodei, an Italian leather craftsman. Their mother Elena Engel was born in Chicago and worked as a project manager for libraries.[3]
Education
editDario grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School.[4] Amodei began his undergraduate studies at Caltech, where he worked with Tom Tombrello as one of Tombrello's Physics 11 students. He later transferred to Stanford University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in physics.[5] He also holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University, where he studied electrophysiology of neural circuits.[6] He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine.[7]
Career
editFrom November 2014 until October 2015 he worked at Baidu. After that, he worked at Google.[8] In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI.[9]
In 2021, Amodei and his sister Daniela founded Anthropic along with other former senior members of OpenAI. The Amodei siblings were among those who left OpenAI due to directional differences.[10]
In July 2023, Amodei warned a United States Senate judiciary panel of the dangers of AI, including the risks it poses in the development and control of weaponry.[11]
In November 2023, the board of directors of OpenAI approached Amodei about replacing Sam Altman and potentially merging the two startups. Amodei declined both offers.[12]
In October 2024, Amodei published an essay named "Machines of Loving Grace", speculating about how AI could improve human welfare.[13][14]
In 2025, Time magazine listed Amodei as one of the world's 100 most influential people.[15]
References
edit- ^ Roose, Kevin (July 11, 2023). "Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism". New York Times.
- ^ Oreskovic, Alexei (July 11, 2023). "Anthropic CEO A.I. risks: short, medium, and long-term". Fortune.
- ^ Levy, Steven. "If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
- ^ "Lowell Alumni Newsletter Winter 2008 by Lowell Alumni Association". Issuu. August 23, 2014.
- ^ Fuller-Wright, Liz (September 12, 2023). "TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians". Princeton University.
- ^ Amodei, Dario (2011). Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior of Neural Circuits (Thesis).
- ^ "Dario Amodei, PhD". The Hertz Foundation.
- ^ "Dario Amodei". LinkedIn.
- ^ Hao, Karen (February 17, 2020). "The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ Goldman, Sharon (April 7, 2023). "As Anthropic seeks billions to take on OpenAI, 'industrial capture' is nigh. Or is it?". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Anthropic's Amodei Warns US Senators of AI-Powered Weapons". Bloomberg. July 25, 2023.
- ^ Dastin, Jeffrey (November 21, 2023). "OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger". Reuters.
- ^ Amodei, Dario (2024-10-11). "Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace". Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ Sullivan, Mark (October 17, 2024). "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pens a smart look at our AI future". Fast Company.
- ^ Kutcher, Ashton (16 April 2025). "Dario Amodei: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025". TIME. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
External links
edit- "Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix's 'Deep Fake Love'" (podcast). New York Times. July 21, 2023.
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