Overview
Daniela Amodei is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Anthropic. She was born in 1987 in San Francisco. As President of Anthropic she leads teams focused on AI safety and alignment, and she sits on the company's board of directors.[1][2][3]
Education and early career
She studied on a classical flute scholarship and earned a BA in English literature from UC Santa Cruz.[1]
Her early work was in global health and politics. She worked on a congressional campaign in Pennsylvania, and she was a communications manager for Rep. Matt Cartwright.[1]
She joined Stripe in 2013 as an early employee.[1]
Main contributions
She joined OpenAI in 2018. There she managed the team during the development of GPT-2 and became vice president of safety and policy. She left OpenAI in 2020.[1]
She co-founded Anthropic with her brother Dario Amodei and other former OpenAI staff.[1][2]
Career at Anthropic
As President she leads the company's safety and alignment teams, and she is one of its board members.[1][3]
Recognition
In September 2023 she and her brother were named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.[1]
Career timeline
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2018
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OpenAI
Worked at 2018–2020
OpenAI is a San Francisco AI research and deployment company founded in 2015 as a nonprofit. It makes the GPT model family and ChatGPT and filed confidentially for an IPO in June 2026.
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OpenAI
Worked at 2018–2020
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2021
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Anthropic
Founded、Worked at 2021–
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in January 2021 by former OpenAI employees. It develops the Claude models and products, and its Responsible Scaling Policy sets out safety levels for its models.
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Anthropic
Founded、Worked at 2021–
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Founded1
20211
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MilestoneAnthropic is founded
Anthropic, an AI company, was incorporated in January 2021 by former employees of OpenAI and set up as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei became its chief executive and Daniela Amodei its president.
Notes and sources
- Daniela Amodeihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei
- Anthropichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
- Companyhttps://www.anthropic.com/company
Cite this page: Daniela Amodei. TellWorld, https://www.tellworld.net/people/daniela-amodei. Updated 2026-11-08