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AI era (2012-present)
Dario Amodei
born 1983
Co-founded Anthropic in 2021; author of the 'Machines of Loving Grace' essay.
Contributions
- 01PhD in computational neuroscience; led safety teams at OpenAI before founding Anthropic with sister Daniela and seven colleagues.
- 02Anthropic became the second-largest frontier lab by revenue by late 2025.
- 03Public face of the responsible-scaling-policy framework that Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind variants now use.
Why it matters for alignment science
Amodei's framing of 'powerful AI' and the responsible-scaling-policy framework set the safety baseline that the rest of the frontier-lab field now operates against.