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Background reference on a key figure in the AI safety ecosystem; useful for understanding Anthropic's leadership and the organizational history connecting OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Wikipedia biography of Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, one of the leading AI safety-focused companies. He previously served as VP of Research at OpenAI before leaving to found Anthropic in 2021. He is a prominent figure in AI safety research and policy discussions.

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•Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, an AI safety company known for developing the Claude family of models
•Previously VP of Research at OpenAI, where he contributed to large language model development
•Left OpenAI in 2021 with Daniela Amodei and others to found Anthropic with a safety-focused mission
•Has been a vocal advocate for AI safety, alignment research, and responsible AI development
•Author of influential essays on AI risk and safety, including 'Machines of Loving Grace'

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Entity	Property	Value	As Of
Dario Amodei	Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei	—
Dario Amodei	Birth Year	1983	—
Dario Amodei	Education	PhD in Biophysics, Princeton University	—
Dario Amodei	Notable For	CEO and co-founder of Anthropic; formerly VP of Research at OpenAI; leading proponent of responsible AI scaling	—

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 American AI entrepreneur (born 1983) 
 
 

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 San Francisco , California, U.S. Education California Institute of Technology (attended)
 Stanford University ( BS )
 Princeton University ( MS , PhD )
 Known   for Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic Spouse Camilla Clark (m. 2022) Relatives Daniela Amodei (sister) Awards Time 100 (2025) Scientific career Fields Machine learning , biophysics Workplaces Stanford Medicine 
 OpenAI 
 Thesis Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding
the Collective Behavior
of Neural Circuits   (2011) Doctoral advisor Michael J. Berry
 William Bialek 
 
 Website darioamodei .com 
 Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic , the company behind the large language model series Claude . [ 2 ] Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] 

 In his capacity as Anthropic's CEO , Amodei often writes on the benefits and risks of advanced AI systems. [ 5 ] He is a proponent of an " entente " strategy in which a coalition of democratic nations use advanced AI systems in military applications to achieve a decisive advantage over adversaries while sharing the benefits with cooperating nations. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 

 Early life

 
 Dario Amodei was born in 1983 in San Francisco, California. His sister, Daniela , was born four years later. [ 1 ] His father, Riccardo Amodei, an Italian-American leather 

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