Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei is an American AI researcher and executive. He co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and has served as its chief executive officer since the company launched; Anthropic develops the Claude family of AI models and is organized as a public benefit corporation.^{Source [1]Source [2]Source [3]}

Before Anthropic he was Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he co-led research direction and led work on the large language models GPT-2 and GPT-3. Earlier he was a senior research scientist on the Google Brain team and worked on speech recognition at Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab.^{Source [4]Source [5]Source [6]Source [7]}

He trained as a scientist, earning an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and a PhD at Princeton University as a Hertz Fellow, where he studied neural circuits, followed by postdoctoral work at the Stanford University School of Medicine.^{Source [5]Source [6]}

He writes long essays on the benefits and risks of advanced AI, including Machines of Loving Grace (2024), The Urgency of Interpretability (2025), The Adolescence of Technology (2026) and We Must Pace the Frontier (2026).^{Source [8]Source [9]Source [10]Source [11]}

In 2026 he publicly refused Department of War demands to drop Anthropic's contract limits on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, and a federal judge later ruled the designation was unlawful First Amendment retaliation. Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation in May 2026 and confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, 2026.^{Source [12]Source [13]Source [14]Source [15]Source [16]Source [17]}