Dario Amodei

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic Inc.

Personal website - darioamodei.com

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Dario Amodei - CEO of Anthropic | Podcast | In Good Company | Norges Bank Investment Management

Jun 26, 2024

Dario Amodei CEO of Anthropic: Claude, New models, AI safety and Economic impactHow much bigger and more powerful will the next AI models be? Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, joins Nicolai in Oslo to discuss the latest advancements in AI, the economic impact of this technology, and the importance of responsible scaling. Dario also shares his excitement about the upcoming models and his thoughts on who will profit the most from AI in the future. Don’t miss this enlightening conversation about the cutting-edge developments in AI. Tune in!In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New episode out every Wednesday.The podcast In Good Company is part of Norges Bank Investment Management , a podcast about our investments. We are transparent about how the fund is invested. In this podcast, you to get a deeper insight into the companies the fund is invested in. Our CEO, Nicolai Tangen, has in-depth interviews with the leaders of some of the largest companies in the world. You will get insight into their leadership principles, the company’s strategy and how they are dealing with a large investor like us. You will also learn more about our role as an owner of the companies.

 

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"Machines of Loving Grace"
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

by Dario Amodei
October 2024

 

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Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
Nov 11, 2024

Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
3:14 - Scaling laws
12:20 - Limits of LLM scaling
20:45 - Competition with OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta
26:08 - Claude
29:44 - Opus 3.5
34:30 - Sonnet 3.5
37:50 - Claude 4.0
42:02 - Criticism of Claude
54:49 - AI Safety Levels
1:05:37 - ASL-3 and ASL-4
1:09:40 - Computer use
1:19:35 - Government regulation of AI
1:38:24 - Hiring a great team
1:47:14 - Post-training
1:52:39 - Constitutional AI
1:58:05 - Machines of Loving Grace
2:17:11 - AGI timeline
2:29:46 - Programming
2:36:46 - Meaning of life
2:42:53 - Amanda Askell - Philosophy
2:45:21 - Programming advice for non-technical people
2:49:09 - Talking to Claude
3:05:41 - Prompt engineering
3:14:15 - Post-training
3:18:54 - Constitutional AI
3:23:48 - System prompts
3:29:54 - Is Claude getting dumber?
3:41:56 - Character training
3:42:56 - Nature of truth
3:47:32 - Optimal rate of failure
3:54:43 - AI consciousness
4:09:14 - AGI
4:17:52 - Chris Olah - Mechanistic Interpretability
4:22:44 - Features, Circuits, Universality
4:40:17 - Superposition
4:51:16 - Monosemanticity
4:58:08 - Scaling Monosemanticity
5:06:56 - Macroscopic behavior of neural networks
5:11:50 - Beauty of neural networks

 

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Dario Amodei of Anthropic’s Hopes and Fears for the Future of A.I.

Feb 28, 2025

This week, Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, returns to the show for a candid, wide-ranging interview. We discuss Anthropic’s brand-new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, the A.I. arms race against China, and his hopes and fears for this technology over the next two years. Then, we gather up recent tech stories, put them into a hat and close out the week with a round of HatGPT.Guestario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic.

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Coming up
00:01:00 - Kevin Roose recaps the "Zuck Rave"
00:05:30 - Part 1 of Hard Fork's interview with Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic
00:31:44 - Kevin and Casey discuss Grok and Elon Musk's future
00:56:53 - HatGPT
01:05:16 - Kevin and Casey using A.I. to enhance personal style?!

 

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"The Urgency of Interpretability"

by Dario Amodei
April 2025

Article "Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027"

by Maxwell Zeff
April 24, 2025

 

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"The Adolescence of Technology"
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

January 2026

 

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What Congress should do about AI, according to Dario Amodei

Jan 27, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joins Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen for a blunt conversation about what Congress should do as artificial intelligence accelerates faster than Washington is ready for.Amodei lays out three specific actions lawmakers need to take and explains why waiting even a few years could lead to backlash, bad regulation, and serious national security risks.He also warns that the biggest threat is not just job loss, but what happens when power, wealth, and trust concentrate faster than leaders are willing to admit.

Timestamps
1:40 What Dario is saying
2:07 Three things you wish Congress would do
2:25 One: Transparency legislation
3:04 Two: Address the authoritarian adversary
3:46 Three: Distribution of AI benefits
4:34 How would Congress prepare the country?
6:59 The future trillionaires
8:26 What Congress should tell constituents
9:56 Why waiting three years is dangerous
11:20 How worried Amodei really is

 

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Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”

Feb 13, 2026

Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis in the current RL regime, how AI will diffuse throughout the economy, whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute given their timelines, how frontier labs will ever make money, whether regulation will destroy the boons of this technology, US-China competition, and much more.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
00:00:00 - What exactly are we scaling?
00:12:36 - Is diffusion cope?
00:29:42 - Is continual learning necessary?
00:46:20 - If AGI is imminent, why not buy more compute?
00:58:49 - How will AI labs actually make profit?
01:31:19 - Will regulations destroy the boons of AGI?
01:47:41 - Why can’t China and America both have a country of geniuses in a datacenter?

 

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Full interview: Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash

Feb 28, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat down with CBS News for an exclusive interview, hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk to national security, which restricts military contractors from doing business with the AI giant. Amodei called the move "retaliatory and punitive," and he said Anthropic sought to draw "red lines" in the government's use of its technology because "we believe that crossing those lines is contrary to American values, and we wanted to stand up for American values."

0:00 Why won't Anthropic release AI without restrictions to the U.S. government?
3:21 Why couldn't an agreement with the Pentagon be reached?
4:55 Amodei responds to Trump's claim that Anthropic is putting "our national security in jeopardy"
7:23 Amodei reacts to Hegseth labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk
11:15 Amodei on why Americans should trust him as CEO of Anthropic
14:37 Amodei on why Anthropic needs to "draw a line in the sand"
19:38 Amodei on the "worst case scenario" Americans should know about
20:59 Amodei responds to Trump calling Anthropic "a woke company"
22:36 Will there be an agreement with the government in the future?
23:18 Amodei on his message to Trump on Anthropic
24:27 Can Anthropic survive this as a business?
26:13 Will Anthropic take legal action?