Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and executive who leads Anthropic. His personal site describes him as the CEO of Anthropic, which it characterizes as a public benefit corporation dedicated to building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable, and safe. Anthropic’s official company page lists him at the top of its board of directors, alongside Daniela Amodei and others.
Before Anthropic, Amodei was a senior research leader at OpenAI. His site states that he served as Vice President of Research there and led the development of large language models including GPT-2 and GPT-3. This is corroborated by the primary GPT-2 paper, “Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners,” whose author list includes “Dario Amodei” with an equal-contribution mark.
For business readers, Amodei is significant as a bridge between the early scaling of large language models at OpenAI and the founding of Anthropic, a company built explicitly around AI safety.