Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. A former neuroscientist and OpenAI research lead who now sets Anthropic's research direction.
Who is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei is an American AI researcher and the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. He co-founded the company in February 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and several former OpenAI researchers. He previously led research at OpenAI and worked on large-scale language models, scaling laws and AI safety.
Dario Amodei at a glance
- RoleCEO and Co-founder, Anthropic (2021–present)
- PhDComputational Neuroscience, Princeton University
- UndergradPhysics, Stanford University
- PreviouslyOpenAI (2016–2020), Baidu AI Lab (2014–2016)
- SiblingDaniela Amodei, President of Anthropic
Career
- 2021–presentCEO and Co-founder, AnthropicLeads research and vision. Anthropic created the Claude family of AI models.
- 2016–2020VP of Research, OpenAILed research during the GPT-2 and GPT-3 era and contributed to scaling laws work.
- 2014–2016Research Scientist, Baidu AI LabWorked on speech recognition and deep learning.
See the full Amodei timeline.
Research and essays
- 2022Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
- 2020Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (co-author)
- 2024Machines of Loving Grace (essay)
- 2026The Adolescence of Technology (essay)
More on his research is on the Work & Research page, and links to the originals are on Resources.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. He leads the company's research and long-term vision.
Is Dario Amodei related to Daniela Amodei?
Yes. Dario and Daniela Amodei are siblings and co-founded Anthropic in 2021.
What did Dario Amodei do before Anthropic?
He was VP of Research at OpenAI from 2016 to 2020, after working as a research scientist at Baidu AI Lab. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton.
What has Dario Amodei written?
Notable work includes Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback, the Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models paper (co-author), and the essays Machines of Loving Grace and The Adolescence of Technology.