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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- Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese AI Model Releases Came With a Safety Result, SemiAnalysis Finds →
SemiAnalysis published a release census of nine Chinese AI labs: of 857 model releases from 2021 to September 15, 2026, only 31 ever had a developer-published safety result and 9 had one at launch. This post walks through the method, the lab-by-lab picture, the argument about Beijing and the pacing debate, and the limits of the data.
- Nadella: Assume Every AI Model Is Compromised and Build an Emergency Brake →
On October 10, 2026, Satya Nadella published a long post on X arguing that AI should not be treated as nested black boxes. His line: assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start, like an emergency brake. Here is what he proposed, how it fits the week of Anthropic and OpenAI incident reports, and what builders can do now.
- AI Labs Wargame the "Day After" a Catastrophe: What Axios Reported vs What Is Verified →
An October 9, 2026 Axios scoop says executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs are gaming out the aftermath of a catastrophic AI event, most likely a cyberattack. OpenAI confirmed it runs preparedness drills; Anthropic declined to comment. Here is what is claimed, what is verified, and why it matters.
- Anthropic Launches a Presidential Engagement Program to Brief 2028 Candidates on AI →
Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs lead at $295,000 to $345,000 to build an in-house team that will offer AI policy education to 2028 presidential candidates in both parties and run the company political giving. Here is what the posting says, who is pushing back, and why it matters.
- Bengio to AI Researchers: “If You Prioritize Safety, Leave Frontier AI Companies” →
In an exclusive essay for Transformer on October 8, 2026, Yoshua Bengio asks frontier AI employees to reflect on whether to stay, and says that if they truly prioritize safety it is time to leave. He points to LawZero, which Canada and Germany committed more than $200 million to this month.