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Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder, Anthropic · as of 2026-10-04 · source

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic (Claude); his September 2026 essay 'We Must Pace the Frontier' called for a deliberate slowdown of frontier AI.

Former OpenAI VP of research who co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela. Author of the essays 'Machines of Loving Grace', 'Policy on the AI Exponential' and 'We Must Pace the Frontier'.

News mentioning Dario Amodei (25)

  1. Trump TIME interview: Amodei 'different than I thought', AI renamed 'SI', open to US stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic ★★★

    In a TIME interview conducted Sept 28, 2026 and published Oct 1, President Trump said his views on Anthropic's Dario Amodei had changed after a White House dinner. He said he now calls AI "SI" (super intelligence) and will rename the AI Force accordingly. Asked about taking government stakes in…

  2. Kevin Roose's 'The AGI Chronicles' excerpt in The Atlantic: the Altman–Amodei feud and a 2017 Brockman/Sutskever plan to auction OpenAI's AGI to countries ★★★

    On Sept 30, 2026 The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's book "The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, on sale Oct 6, 2026). The excerpt covers the OpenAI–Anthropic rivalry and the personal feud between…

  3. NYT: Anthropic's summits with religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness, and Chris Olah's private lobbying of the Vatican ★★★★

    On Sept 29, 2026 the New York Times (Elizabeth Dias) published interviews with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and about 20 religious and philosophical leaders who took part in Anthropic's summits on Claude's moral character and whether it might be conscious. The meetings began with about 15…

  4. Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★

    On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…

  5. SNL's Weekend Update parodies Dario Amodei's AI-risk warnings (Jane Wickline) ★★

    On Sept 26, 2026 Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update featured cast member Jane Wickline as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei trying to reassure the public about AI while blurting out alarming statements ("AI is the devil and I its maker"). The YouTube clip passed 1.1M views in four days. Commentators…

  6. Model Republic traces the September anti-'AI safety' online campaign to Innovation Council Action, a $100M pro-AI dark-money group ★★

    On Sept 25, 2026 Tyler Johnston (The Midas Project) published an analysis in Model Republic arguing that the wave of attacks on AI-safety advocates in September, which called safety concerns a "psyop" or a "cult", was coordinated by Innovation Council Action, a nonprofit led by former White House…

  7. Memo circulating in the White House casts effective altruism as a cult that 'built the AI-doom pipeline', with Dario Amodei at its center ★★★

    Axios reported on Sept 24, 2026 that a memo by a Trump political adviser, circulating in the White House, portrays effective altruism as a fringe, cult-like movement that "built the AI-doom pipeline". It names Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and president Daniela Amodei as core figures ("The Anthropic…

  8. Altman and Amodei ask the UN Security Council for international AI standards and incident reporting ★★★★

    At a UN Security Council session on AI during the 81st General Assembly (Sept 23, 2026), Sam Altman (in person) and Dario Amodei (by video) separately urged governments to adopt international standards for measuring capabilities and risks, verification systems and AI security-incident…

  9. Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 — Fable-5.1-level performance at $4/$20, first model of the Claude 5.5 family ★★★★★

    On September 22, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 (API id `claude-opus-5-5`), the first model of the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic says it performs at the level of its top model Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing about 40% less to run than Claude Opus 5 ($4/$20 per million…

  10. Unsealed briefs in the authors' case against OpenAI and Microsoft: 'We trained GPT-3 on pirated stuff!' ★★★

    Briefs unsealed around Sept 21, 2026 in the consolidated authors' copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft (S.D.N.Y., MDL 25-md-03143, partial summary judgment briefing) quote internal documents showing OpenAI downloaded pirated books from Library Genesis (LibGen) for early GPT training…

  11. Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google, calling the 'pace the frontier' agreement an illegal antitrust conspiracy ★★★

    On Friday Sept 18, 2026 four paid chatbot subscribers filed a proposed nationwide class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act when their leaders publicly agreed to Dario…

  12. Von der Leyen's State of the Union backs 'pacing the frontier' of AI and offers EU support to the labs ★★★

    In her State of the Union address on Sept 16, 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen endorsed slowing frontier AI: "CEOs of the most advanced companies tell us that it is time to slow down on the self-recursive models. To pace the frontier. If the people developing the technology…

  13. Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown ★★★★

    On September 12, 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published 'We Must Pace the Frontier'. The essay argues that AI capability, especially through recursive self-improvement, is outpacing alignment and security, and lays out a three-part plan to slow the frontier. Anthropic unilaterally committed to…

  14. Sam Altman rules out a 2026 OpenAI IPO, calling it "ill-advised" given AI safety concerns ★★★

    In a Fortune interview published 2026-09-12, the same day as Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier", Sam Altman said OpenAI will not go public in 2026: "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." He said OpenAI might join a collective…

  15. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning labs are "gambling with our lives" ★★★★

    On Sept 8, 2026 pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon (OpenAI, then Anthropic) quit Anthropic in an X thread saying both labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives". Press reported 100M+ views within about a day. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger…

  16. OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki publishes "An Alien Mind": no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer ★★★★★

    On Sept 6, 2026, three days after the GPT-6 Astra launch, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published the essay "An Alien Mind" on openai.com. He writes that internal results give him "a strong expectation" that the current pace of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement…

  17. Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X; David Sacks says Amodei wants a "DMV for AI" ★★

    On 2026-08-15 Dario Amodei posted a rare long reply on X to investor Gavin Baker, who had argued that Amodei's warnings fed the US backlash against AI and data centers and that "Dario has lost the argument". Amodei called "concentrate via regulation vs. distribute widely" a false choice and backed…

  18. 'Pacing the Frontier': 1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development ★★★★

    On 2026-07-28, more than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta (1,386 by late September), including Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark and Ilya Sutskever, signed "Pacing the Frontier". The statement asks the US government to support an…

  19. Anthropic says it has never advocated a ban on open-weights models, after Jensen Huang's industry letter ★★★

    On July 27, 2026 Dario Amodei published "Our position on open-weights models", stating that Anthropic has never advocated banning open-weights models as a category. It came days after an open letter organised by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, signed by Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face and others…

  20. Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led, FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body in essay "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age" ★★★★

    On 14 July 2026 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published an X Article saying AGI is "probably only a few short years away". He proposed a US-led, industry-funded Frontier AI Standards Body, modelled on FINRA, to which frontier labs would voluntarily submit models up to 30 days before release…

  21. Dario Amodei publishes "Policy on the AI Exponential", calling for binding frontier-AI regulation ★★★

    On June 10, 2026, the day after Claude Fable 5 launched, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "Policy on the AI Exponential". The essay argues that AI is advancing faster than policy can follow. It calls for an FAA-like regime with mandatory third-party testing of frontier models and government…

  22. Pentagon designates Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after it refuses surveillance and autonomous-weapons uses ★★★★

    In late February to early March 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' after the company refused to let Claude be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous lethal weapons. The administration ordered agencies to phase Claude out. Anthropic sued on…

  23. Dario Amodei publishes "The Adolescence of Technology", a long essay on the risks of powerful AI ★★★

    On January 26, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "The Adolescence of Technology", a ~20,000-word essay on the risks powerful AI poses to national security, economies and democracy, and how to defend against them. It is the counterpart to his 2024 benefits essay "Machines of Loving Grace".

  24. Dario Amodei publishes "Machines of Loving Grace": how powerful AI could compress a century of progress into a decade ★★★★

    On Oct 11, 2024 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better", a ~15,000-word essay. It describes 'powerful AI' as 'a country of geniuses in a datacenter' that could arrive as early as 2026, and argues it could compress 50–100…

  25. Anthropic launches with a focus on AI safety ★★★

    Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei, announced a $124M Series A to build reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems.

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