Dario Amodei at OpenAI
Dario Amodei spent nearly five years at OpenAI, rising to VP of Research and leading the work on GPT-2 and GPT-3 before leaving to co-found Anthropic. Back to the main Dario Amodei profile.
Career at OpenAI
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2016Joins OpenAIComes from Google Brain to lead AI safety research.
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2017Learning from human preferencesCo-authors early RLHF research.
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2019GPT-2Leads research behind GPT-2 and its staged release.
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2020GPT-3 and scaling lawsAs VP of Research, oversees GPT-3 and the scaling laws work.
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Late 2020Leaves OpenAIDeparts with Daniela and several senior researchers.
Why Dario Amodei left OpenAI
Dario has said he left because he wanted to build an organization around a specific vision: that scaling would make models very powerful, and that safety research, interpretability and careful deployment had to be built in from the start. Rather than argue for that vision inside OpenAI, he and his co-founders started a company to demonstrate it.
Several of the people he worked with at OpenAI, including researchers behind GPT-3 and the scaling laws paper, became Anthropic co-founders. His sister's parallel path is described on Daniela Amodei at OpenAI.
Frequently asked questions
What was Dario Amodei's role at OpenAI?
He joined in 2016 to lead safety research and became VP of Research, leading work on GPT-2 and GPT-3.
When did Dario Amodei leave OpenAI?
At the end of 2020. He co-founded Anthropic in early 2021.
Why did Dario Amodei leave OpenAI?
He wanted to build a company where safety research and careful deployment were central from the start, based on his conviction that scaling would make AI very powerful.