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 American entrepreneur (born 1983) 
 

 Dario Amodei Amodei in 2023 Born 1983 (age 42–43) [ 1 ] 
 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 Relatives Daniela Amodei (sister) Awards Time 100 (2025) Scientific career Fields Artificial intelligence Institutions Stanford University School of Medicine 
 OpenAI 
 Anthropic
 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 ] Prior to 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 and education

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 Dario Amodei was born in San Francisco , California, in 1983. [ 1 ] His sister, Daniela , was born four years later. [ 1 ] His father, Riccardo Amodei, an Italian-American leather craftsman from Massa Marittima , Tuscany , died when Amodei was a young adult. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His mother, Elena Engel, a Jewish American born in Chicago , worked as a project manager for libraries. [ 1 ] 

 Dario grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School . [ 11 ] He was a member of the USA Physics Olympiad team in 2000. [ 12 ] Amodei began college at Caltech , where he worked with Tom Tombrello as one of his Physics 11 students. He later transferred to Stanford University , where he received a bachelor of science degree in physics. [ 13 ] He also holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University , where he studied electrophysiology of neural circuits . [ 14 ] He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine . [ 15 ] 

 Career

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 From November 2014 until October 2015, he worked at Baidu . [ 16 ] After that, he worked at Google . [ 17 ] In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI . [ 18 ] 

 In 2021, Dario and his sister, Daniela, founded Anthr

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