In 2021, former OpenAI vice presidents of research and safety, siblings Dario and Daniella Amodei, founded Anthropic (Fortune Editors, 2023). They were joined by 11 OpenAI employees who reportedly believed that the company had wandered from…Devin Coldewey, 2022. “Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M,” TechCrunch (29 April), at https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/29/anthropics-quest-for-better-more-explainable-ai-attracts-580m/, accessed 31 January 2024.
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Dario Amodei
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Dario Amodei is a foundational figure in contemporary AI governance and safety discourse, having left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic in 2021 with a stated mission to develop more explainable and aligned AI systems. The readings position him as emblematic of the schism between commercial AI scaling and safety-conscious research, since his departure from OpenAI alongside a cohort of researchers signals tensions over how the field should balance capability development with interpretability and ethical constraints. His work enables discussions about whether alternative institutional structures can produce different outcomes in AI development—a central question in the course's examination of how power, incentives, and values shape the trajectories of machine learning systems.
Background
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Prior to that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
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