Daniela Amodei is president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Amodei manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience to further the company’s goal of building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Before co-founding Anthropic in 2020, Amodei was VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI, and managed the People and Research engineering teams prior. Before that she was part of the early team at Stripe, where she managed recruiting and later led risk operations. She previously worked in international development and served as a congressional staffer.

Amodei and her brother, Anthropic CEO and cofounder Dario Amodei, were named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence in 2023.

Amodei received her BA in English literature, politics, and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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