Dario Amodei

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Dario Amodei
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Amodei in 2023
Born1983 (age 40–41)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Known forCo-founder / CEO of Anthropic
Scientific career
Fields Artificial intelligence
Institutions
Thesis Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior
of Neural Circuits  (2011)
Doctoral advisor Michael J. Berry
William Bialek
Website https://darioamodei.com

Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an Italian-American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude AI. He was previously the vice president of research at OpenAI. [1] [2]

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Education

Dario grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School. [3] Amodei began his undergraduate studies at Caltech, where he worked with Tom Tombrello as one of Tombrello's Physics 11 students. He later transferred to Stanford University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in physics. [4] He also holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University, where he studied electrophysiology of neural circuits. [5] He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine. [6]

Career

From November 2014 until October 2015 he worked at Baidu. After that, he worked at Google. [7] In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI. [8]

In 2021, Amodei and his sister Daniela founded Anthropic along with other former senior members of OpenAI. The Amodei siblings were among those who left OpenAI due to directional differences. [9]

In July 2023, Amodei warned a United States Senate judiciary panel of the dangers of AI, including the risks it poses in the development and control of weaponry. [10]

In September 2023, Amodei and his sister Daniela were named as two of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (TIME100 AI). [11]

In November 2023, the board of directors of OpenAI approached Amodei about replacing Sam Altman and potentially merging the two startups. Amodei declined both offers. [12]

In October 2024, Amodei published an essay named "Machines of Loving Grace", [13] in which he lays out a vision for how AI could radically improve human welfare assuming the risks are successfully managed. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Roose, Kevin (July 11, 2023). "Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism" . New York Times.
  2. ↑ Oreskovic, Alexei (July 11, 2023). "Anthropic CEO A.I. risks: short, medium, and long-term". Fortune.
  3. ↑ "Lowell Alumni Newsletter Winter 2008 by Lowell Alumni Association". Issuu. August 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fuller-Wright, Liz (September 12, 2023). "TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians". Princeton University.
  5. ↑ Amodei, Dario (2011). Network-Scale Electrophysiology: Measuring and Understanding the Collective Behavior of Neural Circuits (Thesis).
  6. ↑ "Dario Amodei, PhD". The Hertz Foundation.
  7. ↑ "Dario Amodei". LinkedIn.
  8. ↑ Hao, Karen (February 17, 2020). "The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world". MIT Technology Review.
  9. ↑ Goldman, Sharon (April 7, 2023). "As Anthropic seeks billions to take on OpenAI, 'industrial capture' is nigh. Or is it?". VentureBeat.
  10. ↑ "Anthropic's Amodei Warns US Senators of AI-Powered Weapons" . Bloomberg. July 25, 2023.
  11. ↑ "TIME100 AI 2023: Dario and Daniela Amodei". Time. September 7, 2023.
  12. ↑ Dastin, Jeffrey (November 21, 2023). "OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger". Reuters.
  13. ↑ Amodei, Dario (2024-10-11). "Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace" . Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  14. ↑ Sullivan, Mark (October 17, 2024). "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pens a smart look at our AI future". Fast Company.
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