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 the co-founder and research leader of Anthropic, the AI safety-focused company he and his sister Daniella established in 2021 after leaving OpenAI, reportedly dissatisfied with the organization's departure from its original principles. His work is cited in the course readings as exemplifying an alternative institutional approach to AI development—one centered on explainability and safety rather than scale alone—and thus represents a key counterpoint to the dominant paradigm in contemporary machine learning and AI governance.
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