Dario Amodei
{{Short description|Italian-American entrepreneur}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Dario Amodei
| image = Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 01.jpg
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| caption = Amodei in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1983}}
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| citizenship = United States
| fields = Artificial intelligence
| workplaces = {{hlist|Stanford University School of Medicine|OpenAI|Anthropic}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Caltech|Stanford University|Princeton University (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior
of Neural Circuits
| thesis_url = https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp013f462544k
| thesis_year = 2011
| doctoral_advisor = Michael J. Berry
William Bialek
| known_for = Co-founder / CEO of Anthropic
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| relatives = Daniela Amodei (sister)
| awards = Time 100 (2025)
| website = {{url|https://darioamodei.com}}
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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.{{Cite web |last=Roose |first=Kevin |date=July 11, 2023 |title=Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/technology/anthropic-ai-claude-chatbot.html |newspaper=New York Times |url-access=registration}}{{Cite web |last=Oreskovic |first=Alexei |date=July 11, 2023 |title=Anthropic CEO A.I. risks: short, medium, and long-term |url=https://fortune.com/2023/07/10/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-risks-short-medium-long-term/ |magazine=Fortune}}
Early life
Dario 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.{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Steven |title=If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born |url=https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-benevolent-artificial-intelligence/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}
Education
Dario grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School.{{Cite web |date=August 23, 2014 |title=Lowell Alumni Newsletter Winter 2008 by Lowell Alumni Association |url=https://issuu.com/lowell_alumni_association/docs/laa_winter08 |website=Issuu |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Fuller-Wright |first=Liz |date=September 12, 2023 |title=TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/09/12/time-magazines-time100-artificial-intelligence-list-honors-six-princetonians |publisher=Princeton University |language=en}} He also holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University, where he studied electrophysiology of neural circuits.{{Cite thesis |last=Amodei |first=Dario |date=2011 |title=Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior of Neural Circuits |url=https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp013f462544k |language=en}} He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine.{{Cite web |title=Dario Amodei, PhD |url=https://www.hertzfoundation.org/person/dario-amodei/ |publisher=The Hertz Foundation}}
Career
From November 2014 until October 2015 he worked at Baidu. After that, he worked at Google.{{Cite web |title=Dario Amodei |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934/ |website=LinkedIn}} In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI.{{Cite web |last=Hao |first=Karen |date=February 17, 2020 |title=The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/ |publisher=MIT Technology Review}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |date=April 7, 2023 |title=As Anthropic seeks billions to take on OpenAI, 'industrial capture' is nigh. Or is it? |url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/as-anthropic-seeks-billions-to-take-on-openai-industrial-capture-is-nigh-or-is-it/ |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web |date=July 25, 2023 |title=Anthropic's Amodei Warns US Senators of AI-Powered Weapons |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-25/anthropic-s-amodei-warns-us-senators-of-ai-powered-bioweapons |publisher=Bloomberg |url-access=subscription}}
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.{{Cite web |last1=Dastin |first1=Jeffrey |date=November 21, 2023 |title=OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-board-approached-anthropic-ceo-about-top-job-merger-sources-2023-11-21/ |publisher=Reuters}}
In October 2024, Amodei published an essay named "Machines of Loving Grace", speculating about how AI could improve human welfare.{{Cite web |last=Amodei |first=Dario |date=2024-10-11 |title=Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace |url=https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace |access-date=2024-11-18 |website= |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Mark |date=October 17, 2024 |title=Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pens a smart look at our AI future |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91211163/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-pens-a-smart-look-at-our-ai-future |work=Fast Company}}
In 2025, Time magazine listed Amodei as one of the world's 100 most influential people.{{cite web |last1=Kutcher |first1=Ashton |author1-link=Ashton Kutcher |title=Dario Amodei: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 |url=https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273747/dario-amodei |website=TIME |access-date=18 April 2025 |language=en |date=16 April 2025}}
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/podcasts/dario-amodei-ceo-of-anthropic-on-the-paradoxes-of-ai-safety-and-netflixs-deep-fake-love.html |title=Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix's 'Deep Fake Love' |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 21, 2023 |url-access=registration |format=podcast}}
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