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Dario Amodei

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Serial AI innovator who left OpenAI to build Anthropic, achieving $61.5B valuation and unicorn status in 11 months with a safety-first approach.

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AI / Machine Learning
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Impact

$2bn+

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Year from Launch to Unicorn

$14.3bn

Funding raised

1,100+

People employed

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1,100+

People employed

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$14.3bn

Funding raised

1

Year from Launch to Unicorn

$61.5bn

Current valuation

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$580m

Series B Funding

Life Story
Background

Born & Raised

Dario was born in San Francisco, California, to Riccardo Amodei, an Italian leather craftsman, and Elena Engel, a Jewish-American project manager for libraries.

Born & Raised

Dario was born in San Francisco, California, to Riccardo Amodei, an Italian leather craftsman, and Elena Engel, a Jewish-American project manager for libraries.

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The progress of the underlying technology is inexorable, driven by forces too powerful to stop, but the way in which it happens [is] eminently possible to change, and it’s possible to have great positive impact by doing so.

Dario Amodei (Personal blog), 1st April 2025external-link-icon

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Dario Amodei
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Exclusive / Anthropic launches new effort to study AI’s economic impac

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Exclusive: Anthropic Let Claude Run Its Office Shop. Then Things Got W

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Why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Is Asking for AI Regulation

6th June 2025

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Will AI Really Take Your Job? Experts Weigh In On Dario Amodei’s Predi

4th June 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Predicts Half of All Entry-Level Office Job

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Tech CEO issues warning about AI as he shares his biggest concern abou

1st June 2025

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Why this leading AI CEO is warning the tech could cause mass unemploym

29th May 2025

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AI could wipe out some white-collar jobs and drive unemployment to 20%

29th May 2025

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Anthropic CEO warns AI will destroy half of all white-collar jobs

29th May 2025

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Takeaways from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s CNN interview

29th May 2025

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29th May 2025

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Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath

28th May 2025

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Anthropic CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-c

28th May 2025

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28th May 2025

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26th May 2025

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Anthropic CEO Braces His Employees for AI to Change How They Work

26th May 2025

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Anthropic CEO: “We Do Not Understand How Our Own AI Creations Work”

25th May 2025

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Anthropic Is Trying to Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul

19th May 2025

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Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027

24th April 2025

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If Anthropic Succeeds, Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

28th March 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI might need an "I quit" button

24th March 2025

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Anthropic CEO Predicts AI Will Take Over Coding in 12 Months

14th March 2025

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Giving AI The Right To Quit—Anthropic CEO’s ‘Craziest’ Thought Yet

14th March 2025

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Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of

14th March 2025

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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking s

13th March 2025

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12th March 2025

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CEO Speaker Series With Dario Amodei of Anthropic

10th March 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI will match ‘country of geniuses’

9th March 2025

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Anthropic chief: ‘By next year, AI could be smarter than all humans’

2nd March 2025

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The CEO of Anthropic thinks it may be impossible to warn people about

1st March 2025

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28th February 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of ‘race’ to understand AI as it beco

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11th February 2025

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9th February 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: DeepSeek’s Threat to AI Companies ‘Greatly

30th January 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Believes A.I. Could Double Human Lifespans

25th January 2025

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Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans

24th January 2025

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Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost eve

22nd January 2025

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Warns: Not All AI Firms Can Be Trusted With

19th December 2024

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says He Left OpenAI Over a Difference in ..

9th December 2024

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI

5th December 2024

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13th November 2024

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Anthropic CEO Thinks AI May Outsmart Most Humans By 2026

9th November 2024

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI Likely Smarter Than Humans This Decade

21st October 2024

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17th October 2024

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“I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be”:

16th October 2024

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Posits An AI Future

14th October 2024

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Anthropic CEO: AI Will Cost $10 Billion to Train By 2025

8th July 2024

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$100 billion to build an AI model? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts

7th July 2024

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Thinks Altman and Musk’s Inequality Solutio

25th June 2024

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Being an Underdog, AI Safety, and Econom

23rd June 2024

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The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work https://t.co/Mz8R23uxgy
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My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures https://t.co/LZAANEcZJW
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Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better https://t.co/CFGd4Sbq86

career-milestoneCareer Milestones

Co-founder and CEO
Anthropic

Anthropic

An AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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2021 – Present

Team Lead, Research Director, Vice President
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OpenAI

An AI research company that aims to develop safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI)

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2016 – 2020

Senior Research Scientist
Google

Google

A multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence
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2015 – 2016

Research Scientist
Baidu

Baidu

A leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, driven by its mission to make the complicated world simpler through technology
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2014 – 2015

Software Developer
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Skyline

A comprehensive software suite essential to the research of a large fraction of the proteomics community

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2013 – 2014

Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford

Stanford University

One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions, located in the San Francisco Bay Area
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2011 – 2014

Consultant
Applied minds

Applied Minds

A think tank that delivers innovation through technology, design and engineering, combining vision development, creative design, and engineering with storytelling, to build innovative products and services
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2008 – 2013

PhD Student in Computational Neuroscience
Princeton

Princeton University

A private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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2006 – 2011

Geophysicist
SLB

Schlumberger

A global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet
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2004

Research Intern
Applied minds

Applied Minds

A think tank that delivers innovation through technology, design and engineering, combining vision development, creative design, and engineering with storytelling, to build innovative products and services
caelndar

2003

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Advisory & Mentoring
Anthropic

Anthropic

Advisor

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Anthropic

Anthropic

Serves on Anthropic's board of directors, in addition to his executive role. The board also includes his sister, Daniela Amodei, and Jay Kreps

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