Dario Amodei is CEO and co-founder of Anthropic.

What is Dario Amodei known for?

Dario Amodei is primarily known as a(n) artificial intelligence researcher, technology entrepreneur.

Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic

Born:January 13, 1983

Age:43

Zodiac Sign:Capricorn

Born in:San Francisco, United States

Artificial Intelligence Researcher Technology Entrepreneur

Links

Wikipedia Official Website

Famous For

Notable Work

Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling

Books

Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative ModelingThe Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

Awards

Time 100 (2025)

Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic

Biography

Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI. Amodei earned a doctorate in biophysics from Princeton University. From 2014 to 2016, he worked on machine learning at Baidu and Google Brain. At OpenAI, he worked on the development of GPT-2, GPT-3, and reinforcement learning from human feedback. In 2021, Dario and his sister, Daniela, founded Anthropic along with five other former OpenAI employees including Jared Kaplan and Chris Olah. Amodei has led an AI safety culture at Anthropic, and has expressed a probability of catastrophic harm from AI at 10–25%. Simultaneously, Amodei has advocated for democratic nations to maintain an AI lead to deter authoritarian nations, especially China, via advanced military AI, semiconductor export controls and distillation safeguards. Since 2026, Amodei has also called for a slowdown of AI development, especially recursive self-improvement by democratic states, while engaging China in arms control-analogous diplomacy. Time magazine listed Amodei as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2025 and 2026.

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Quotes

“Anthropic actually has been the most lean forward of all the AI companies in working with the U.S. government and working with the U.S. military. We were the first company to, you know, put our models on the classified cloud.”

“Se lasciata senza controllo, potrebbe superare la nostra capacità di comprendere e controllare questi sistemi, e pertanto deve essere perseguita con estrema cautela, se mai lo si dovesse fare.”

“I won't lie to you – there are real dangers. And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks.”

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Photos

Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

24/05/2023. London, United Kingdom. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with Demis Hassabis, CEO DeepMind, Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic, and Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street