Daniela Amodei

Daniela Amodei is an American technology executive and co-founder of Anthropic. She studied English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her career has centered on building and managing organizations, with roles in recruiting, operations, and the development of policies for fast-growing technology companies.

Before Anthropic, Amodei worked at Stripe and OpenAI. At OpenAI, her responsibilities included safety and policy leadership as well as managing technical teams. These experiences placed her at the intersection of organizational development and decisions about how increasingly capable AI systems should be researched and introduced to users.

In 2021, she co-founded Anthropic with Dario Amodei and other former OpenAI colleagues. The company develops the Claude family of AI systems and conducts research on safety, interpretability, and model behavior. Her contribution has focused on the institution supporting that work, rather than an attribution of the underlying research papers to her personally.

Anthropic identifies Amodei as its president and chair of the board. Her responsibilities span research, engineering, product, governance, and commercial leadership. She represents the organizational side of AI development: hiring, coordination, decision making, and the structures that connect research with deployed services. These responsibilities influence how a company's technical ambitions become operating practices and products used by individuals and organizations.