Dario Amodei is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, the AI safety-focused research company behind the Claude model family. Before founding Anthropic in 2021, Amodei held senior research roles at OpenAI, where he worked on GPT-2 and GPT-3, and earlier at Google Brain and Baidu. He holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University.
Amodei has been an influential voice on AI safety and the risks of rapidly scaling frontier AI systems, publishing widely-read essays on AI's economic and societal implications, and has positioned Anthropic's public-benefit corporate structure as a deliberate attempt to balance commercial AI development with safety-oriented governance.