Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. His work covers large language models, AI safety, and understanding how AI systems behave.
About Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, where he directs the company's research strategy. Anthropic describes its research priorities as making AI systems more reliable, easier to interpret, and responsive to human direction.
Previously, Amodei was vice president of research at OpenAI, where he led work on GPT-2 and GPT-3, and a senior research scientist at Google Brain. He earned a doctorate in biophysics at Princeton University and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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- White House AI Task Force Gets 120 Days, and Bessent Tells AI CEOs to "Slow Down" →
Two US government signals landed within days. A new White House task force, reportedly chaired by Jay Clayton, has 120 days to map AI risks and the federal role. Separately, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told The Axios Show that AI CEOs calling for slower development "should slow down." Here is what is reported, what is not, and how to plan around it.
- LeCun Has "Zero Concerns" About Rogue AI. His Real Point Is About Sandboxes →
In a Fortune interview published October 1, 2026, Yann LeCun said he has "zero concerns" about AI extinction and called recent rogue-agent incidents "totally preventable." Strip away the feud with effective altruism and the claim that survives is an engineering one: contain your agents properly.
- White House Accord on Super Intelligence: The Four-Layer Frontier Commitment →
On September 30, 2026, President Trump and CEOs from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — formally the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The document commits frontier labs to four layers of internal controls, external audits, and board oversight. It is voluntary, not statute, but it names the checklist enterprise buyers will ask about next quarter.
- FTC Confirms a Probe of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Other AI Firms →
On September 30, 2026, an FTC spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over product risks. Reuters, citing a senior official, reported plans to demand information and compel executive testimony, including from METR. This post keeps those layers separate: confirmation of a probe is not proof that CIDs have been served, and it is not a finding of a violation.
- Bill Gates on Meet the Press: Federal AI Law Beats Self-Regulation →