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Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder, Anthropic

Executive Since Jan 2021 Title confirmed Sep 14, 2026 (source)

Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 after leading GPT-2 and GPT-3 research at OpenAI; writes the long essays (Machines of Loving Grace) that set the company line on AI progress and risk.

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In their words

“AI is not a weapon, it’s a tool: A tool for building weapons,”

“Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”

“We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to ⁠keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.”

“I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years.”

“Even Other AI Labs Are Rallying Around Anthropic’s Slowdown Proposal”

“I think a key principle that we should all agree on is that we cannot take actions that would risk losing control of the future to AI,”

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Who is Dario Amodei?
CEO and co-founder at Anthropic (since jan 2021). Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 after leading GPT-2 and GPT-3 research at OpenAI; writes the long essays (Machines of Loving Grace) that set the company line on AI progress and risk.
Who does Dario Amodei report to?
Dario Amodei is at the top of the Anthropic chart Subvolts tracks.