PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei is Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO. His earlier career includes a Princeton doctorate in biophysics, postdoctoral research at Stanford, and work at Google Brain, Baidu, and OpenAI. His shared research included Deep Speech 2 and learning from human preferences, followed by language-model work at OpenAI. After leaving in December 2020, he helped establish Anthropic with colleagues, including his sister Daniela Amodei, the company’s president. Anthropic introduced Claude in 2023 as a text assistant through chat and API access. Amodei also writes about the possible benefits and risks of powerful AI. Machines of Loving Grace in 2024 and The Adolescence of Technology in 2026 set out his forecasts and proposals. Those essays state positions and possible futures whose outcomes remain uncertain.

Now at
Anthropic
Works
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Timeline

  1. Education and early work

    Biophysics to AI

    Amodei’s research training leads to industry work, including shared speech-recognition research.

  2. From about 2016

    OpenAI

    He works on language models and research direction at OpenAI.

  3. 2017

    Human preferences

    Amodei and collaborators study training from comparisons supplied by people.

  4. 2020–2021

    Anthropic

    He leaves OpenAI and co-founds Anthropic with Daniela Amodei and other colleagues.

  5. 2023

    Claude

    Anthropic introduces broader access to its text assistant.

  6. 2024–2026

    Public essays

    Amodei publishes forecasts about benefits and proposals concerning risks from powerful AI.

Sources and credits

Photo: TechCrunch; Dario Amodei at Disrupt 2023; Flickr-sized copy. License: CC BY 2.0. Source: commons.wikimedia.org. Cropped to a square and resized. Ask us to remove or replace this photo.

  1. Dario Amodei: official biography darioamodei.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  2. Anthropic: current leadership anthropic.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  3. Amodei and colleagues: Deep Speech 2, 2015 arxiv.org. Checked 10 October 2026.
  4. Christiano and colleagues: human preferences, 2017 arxiv.org. Checked 10 October 2026.
  5. OpenAI: organizational update, 29 December 2020 openai.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  6. Anthropic: first financing announcement, 28 May 2021 anthropic.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  7. Anthropic introduces Claude, 14 March 2023 anthropic.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  8. Amodei: Machines of Loving Grace, October 2024 darioamodei.com. Checked 10 October 2026.
  9. Amodei: The Adolescence of Technology, January 2026 darioamodei.com. Checked 10 October 2026.