Dario Amodei

Italian-American entrepreneur

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 the former vice president of research at OpenAI.^[1]^[2]

Education

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.^[3] He also holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine.^[4]

Career

From November 2014 until October 2015 he worked at Baidu. After that, he worked at Google.^[5] In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI.^[6]

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, specifically regarding OpenAI's ventures with Microsoft in 2019.^[7]

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.^[8]

In September 2023, Amodei and his sister Daniela were named as two of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (TIME100 AI).^[9]

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.^[10]

References

^ Roose, Kevin (July 11, 2023). "Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism". The New York Times.
^ Oreskovic, Alexei (July 11, 2023). "Anthropic CEO A.I. risks: short, medium, and long-term". Fortune.
^ Fuller-Wright, Liz (September 12, 2023). "TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians". Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
^ "Dario Amodei, PhD". The Hertz Foundation.
^ Amodei, Dario. "Dario Amodei". LinkedIn.
^ Hao, Karen (February 17, 2020). "The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world". MIT Technology Review.
^ Goldman, Sharon (2023-04-07). "As Anthropic seeks billions to take on OpenAI, 'industrial capture' is nigh. Or is it?". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
^ "Anthropic's Amodei Warns US Senators of AI-Powered Weapons". Bloomberg. July 25, 2023.
^ "TIME100 AI 2023: Dario and Daniela Amodei". Time. September 7, 2023.
^ Dastin, Jeffrey (November 21, 2023). "OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger". Reuters.