Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic
Physicist turned AI researcher, formerly VP of research at OpenAI, who co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and a group of colleagues. He writes at length about both the upside of powerful AI and the risks of racing toward it.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
A long, unedited conversation where he is pushed on both the business case and the risks.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues powerful AI is coming soon and could compress decades of scientific progress into years, while also carrying catastrophic misuse risk.
- Publishes Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy, which ties model releases to safety-evaluation thresholds rather than to dates.
- Has warned publicly that AI may eliminate a large share of entry-level white-collar work, and argues leaders should say so plainly.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and serves as CEO.
- Previously VP of research at OpenAI; co-author of the GPT-3 paper and of "Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences", the work behind RLHF.
- Co-author of "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" (2016), still one of the most cited framings of the field.
Papers & key writings
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Jobs
What they've said in public about careers, hiring and work. Each point links to its source.
- Public position
Warned that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. Other tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, have disputed this.
Reported by CNBC, May 2025
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Why this: Covers frontier models and AI safety too
Alignment Research Center
Non-profit research organisation working on theoretical alignment and on evaluations that test what frontier models are capable of, with public reports.
Why this: Covers frontier models and AI safety too
The Basic AI Drives
Paper by Stephen Omohundro (2008) arguing that sufficiently advanced goal-directed AI systems would tend to develop basic drives such as self-preservation, resource acquisition, and goal preservation, and discussing what those drives imply for designing safe AI. Hosted on the Self-Aware Systems site.
Why this: Also about AI safety
plz dont kill us — Creator Bootcamp on AI Risk
An experimental bootcamp in Berkeley, California, where creators post short-form videos about AI risk every day. The first cohort of 57 creators (July 2026) tracked 112M+ views; the next is tentatively January 2027, with rolling applications.
Why this: Also about AI safety