Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic · AI Safety Researcher
Dario is co-founder of Anthropic and former VP of Research at OpenAI. He played a key role in GPT-2 and GPT-3 before co-founding Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela, with the mission of making AI safety the central commercial logic of a for-profit company rather than a side concern.
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❝ Powerful AI is not AGI, but it can complete most PhD-level research tasks within five years. ❞
❝ Alignment research is not 'after AGI' — it is the process itself. ❞
❝ Anthropic's business model is anchored on Claude API, not consumer-facing applications. ❞
❝ Anthropic does not race to AGI first; it races to be ahead on the safety curve. ❞
❝ AI capabilities are improving extremely fast, superintelligence could arrive by 2026-2027, and he is more worried about economic issues and concentration of power. ❞
from Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
