Anthropic Fears Concentrated Wealth, Then Mints It
Anthropic's filing warns AI could concentrate wealth while its IPO could make 50 early staff centimillionaires, and the founders' 80% giving pledge is revocable.
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Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic
Dario Amodei is co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, the AI research and products company behind Claude. He previously served as OpenAI’s vice president of research, helping lead work on GPT-2, GPT-3 and long-term AI safety. Before OpenAI, he researched deep learning at Google Brain. His earlier scientific training includes doctoral research at Princeton and postdoctoral work at Stanford’s medical school.
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Dario Amodei is co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, the AI research and products company behind Claude. He previously served as OpenAI’s vice president of research, helping lead work on GPT-2, GPT-3 and long-term AI safety. Before OpenAI, he researched deep learning at Google Brain. His earlier scientific training includes doctoral research at Princeton and postdoctoral work at Stanford’s medical school.
- Current role
- Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic ↗
- Research background
- Physics; neural circuits; AI safety ↗
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Publishes Machines of Loving Grace
Amodei publishes an essay describing potential benefits of powerful AI, while explaining how risks and uncertainty shape his approach to developing the technology.
Source: Dario Amodei ↗Anthropic introduces Claude
Anthropic makes Claude more broadly available through a chat interface and API after a closed testing period with partners including Notion, Quora and DuckDuckGo.
Source: Anthropic ↗Co-founds Anthropic
Amodei co-founds Anthropic at the beginning of 2021. The company’s subsequent financing announcement describes its research into steerable, robust and interpretable AI systems.
Source: Anthropic ↗Co-authors Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Amodei and collaborators publish a paper identifying practical problems in machine learning safety, including reward hacking, side effects, safe exploration and distributional shift.
Source: Amodei and colleagues / arXiv ↗Co-authors Deep Speech 2
Amodei is first author of Deep Speech 2, presenting an end-to-end deep learning approach to speech recognition in English and Mandarin Chinese.
Source: Amodei and colleagues / arXiv ↗Receives a Hertz Fellowship
The Hertz Foundation identifies Amodei as a 2007 Fellow, supporting the scientific training that preceded his research career in deep learning and AI.
Source: Hertz Foundation ↗
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