Dario Amodei is the chief executive officer and a co-🏷️#founder of 📝Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the 📝Claude family of models. A 🏷️#researcher by training, he holds a bachelor's degree in physics from 📝Stanford University and a PhD in biophysics from 📝Princeton University. He leads Anthropic's research and product direction, while his sister and co-founder 📝Daniela Amodei serves as president.

Before Anthropic, Amodei worked on speech recognition at Baidu and on AI research at 📝Google, then joined 📝OpenAI in 2016, where he rose to vice president of research. He left in 2020 and co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with Daniela and other former OpenAI staff. He is known publicly for long-form essays on AI's trajectory, including "Machines of Loving Grace" (October 2024), which lays out the benefits powerful AI could bring, and "The Adolescence of Technology" (January 2026), which catalogs its major risk categories. Under his leadership Anthropic has paired frontier capability with restricted release, most visibly in gating 📝Claude Mythos behind 📝Project Glasswing.