Dario Amodei
Also known as DarioAmodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic.
At a glance
Roles
Anthropic (CEO)
Essays to start with
Machines of Loving Grace, The Adolescence of Technology
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- Dario Amodei is a co-founder and the chief executive of Anthropic.
- He trained as a physicist and holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton.
- At OpenAI he worked on GPT-2, GPT-3 and reinforcement learning from human feedback.
- He left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and five others.
- He writes long essays on AI, including "Machines of Loving Grace" (2024) and "The Adolescence of Technology" (2026).
Why it matters
- For anyone following frontier AI: he runs Anthropic, the maker of Claude, and his essays set out how the company thinks about AI's benefits and risks.
Key facts
- Current role
- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic1
- Born
- 1983, San Francisco, California2
- Education
- Caltech, then a BS in physics from Stanford; PhD in biophysics from Princeton (thesis 2011)2
- Before OpenAI
- Baidu from November 2014 to October 2015, then Google Brain; postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Medicine2
- OpenAI
- Joined in 2016; former vice president of research2
- Anthropic
- Co-founded in 20212
- Honors
- TIME 100 Most Influential People, 2025 and 2026; Hertz Thesis Prize, 20112
- Net worth
- $15.5 billion, Forbes estimate (June 2026)2
Roles
Founded
On the board of
Essays to start with
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Machines of Loving Grace (opens darioamodei.com)2
How powerful AI could change the world for the better.
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The Adolescence of Technology2
His essay on the risks of powerful AI, in five categories.
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