Dario Amodei co-founded and leads Anthropic, the company behind Claude, with a focus on building capable AI systems that can be understood and controlled. He previously led research at OpenAI and worked on deep learning at Google Brain and Baidu after training in physics and computational neuroscience.
Dario Amodei co-founded and leads Anthropic, the company behind Claude, with a focus on building capable AI systems that can be understood and controlled. He previously led research at OpenAI and worked on deep learning at Google Brain and Baidu after training in physics and computational neuroscience.
Career
Dario Amodei attended Stanford University, earning a BS, Physics as well as Princeton University, earning a PhD, Physics (biophysics).
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Anthropic from 2021 to Present.Leads the company building Claude and researching AI safety, alignment and interpretability.
Vice President of Research at OpenAI from 2019-12 to 2020-12.Co-led research direction with Ilya Sutskever. Across his OpenAI tenure, he helped develop GPT-2 and GPT-3 and led AI safety research.
Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain at Google from 2015-10 to 2016-07.Worked on deep learning and AI safety, including coauthoring Concrete Problems in AI Safety.
Research Scientist at Baidu from 2014-11 to 2015-10.Helped lead Deep Speech 2, an end-to-end speech-recognition research project.SUPostdoctoral Scholar, School of Medicine at Stanford University from 2011-12 to 2014-12.Studied computational proteomics and cancer biomarkers using mass spectrometry.
AMConsultant at Applied Minds from 2008 to 2013.
SGeophysicist at Schlumberger from 2004 to 2004.