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Dario Amodei
AnthropicCo-founder and CEO
🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1983
Amodei helped establish scaling laws showing how language models improve with more data and computing power.[1] He led OpenAI’s GPT-2 and GPT-3 efforts[2] and co-developed learning from human preferences, a way to steer AI behavior by training on people’s judgments.[3]
Career & education
Current roleAnthropic2021-presentCo-founder and CEO
Anthropic2021-presentPreviously
OpenAI2016-2020Research Scientist -> VP of Research
Google Brain2015-2016Senior Research Scientist
Baidu2014-2015Research Scientist
OpenAI2016-2020Google Brain2015-2016Baidu2014-2015Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations207,296As of Nov 1, '26
citations+7,445Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
With Tom Brown, Ben Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan and others ·GPT-3 performs tasks from prompts and a few examples without task-specific training.
Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners
GPT-2 showed how learning to predict text could support tasks without separate training.
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
With Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, Tom Brown, Benjamin Chess, Rewon Child, Scott Gray and others ·Measured predictable links between language-model performance, model size, data and computation.
References
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Modelsarxiv.org
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- Dario Amodei — Hertz Foundation biographyhertzfoundation.org
Dario Amodei — Hertz Foundation biography verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- Deep reinforcement learning from human preferencesarxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- Concrete Problems in AI Safetyarxiv.org
Concrete Problems in AI Safety verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- Anthropic leadershipanthropic.com
Anthropic leadership verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- Machines of Loving Gracedarioamodei.com
Machines of Loving Grace verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
- The Adolescence of Technologydarioamodei.com
The Adolescence of Technology verifies the anchored research, leadership or authorial position; forecasts are presented as his views, not established outcomes.
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