{{Short description|American entrepreneur (born 1987)}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniela Amodei | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1987}}<ref name=levy2025a /> | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | education = University of California, Santa Cruz (BA) | occupation = Entrepreneur | title = President and co-founder of Anthropic | spouse = {{marriage|Holden Karnofsky|2017}} | children = 1 | known_for = Co-founding Anthropic, Vice President of Safety and Policy at OpenAI | notable_works = | awards = Time 100 Most Influential People in AI (2023) | relatives = Dario Amodei (brother) }} '''Daniela Amodei''' (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with her brother Dario Amodei.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prescott |first=Katie |date=June 26, 2024 |title=Anthropic boss Daniela Amodei makes her pitch for ‘trustworthy’ AI |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/anthropic-boss-daniela-amodei-makes-her-pitch-for-trustworthy-ai-hnw37q50z |website=www.thetimes.com}}</ref> Prior to her work at Anthropic, she was the vice president of safety and policy at OpenAI.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Perrigo |first=Billy |date=30 May 2024 |title=Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy |url=https://time.com/6980000/anthropic/ |access-date=3 October 2025 |website=Time}}</ref>
== Early life == Daniela Amodei was born in San Francisco in 1987. Her father, Riccardo Amodei, an Italian American leather craftsman from Massa Marittima, Tuscany, died when Amodei was a young adult after years of health problems.<ref name="levy2025a">{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Levy |date=March 28, 2025 |title=If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born |url=https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-benevolent-artificial-intelligence/ |access-date=December 4, 2025 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Frasso |first=Edoardo |date=2023-11-27 |title=Chi sono Dario e Daniela Amodei: gli italoamericani dell'AI etica |url=https://ainews.it/chi-sono-dario-e-daniela-amodei-gli-italoamericani-delletica-tech/ |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=AI News |language=it-IT}}</ref> Her mother, Elena Engel, a Jewish American born in Chicago, worked as a project manager for libraries.<ref name="levy2025a" /> Daniela is the younger sister of Dario Amodei.
Daniela graduated from Lowell High School.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-23 |title=Lowell Alumni Newsletter Fall 2005 by Lowell Alumni Association - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/lowell_alumni_association/docs/laa_fall05/4 |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}</ref> She received a classical flute scholarship and studied liberal arts and music,<ref name="levy2025a" /> graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amodei |first=Daniela |title=Daniela Amodei LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a/}}</ref>
== Career == Amodei started her career in global health and politics, playing a role in a successful congressional campaign in Pennsylvania. She then briefly managed communications for House Representative Matt Cartwright in Washington D.C., before leaving politics for the tech industry. In 2013, she joined the financial service company Stripe as an early employee, before transitioning to OpenAI in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palazzolo |first=Stephanie |date=April 24, 2023 |title=How Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei plans to turn trust and safety into a feature, not a bug |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cofounder-daniela-amodei-trust-safety-generative-artificial-intelligence-2023-4 |website=Business Insider |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230507100057/https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cofounder-daniela-amodei-trust-safety-generative-artificial-intelligence-2023-4 |archive-date=May 7, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> At OpenAI, Amodei managed the team during GPT-2's development before moving into safety and policy.<ref name=levy2025a /><ref name=sullivan2023a /> She was the vice president of safety and policy there, but left in 2020 to co-found Anthropic with her brother Dario Amodei.<ref name=sullivan2023a>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Mark |date=September 6, 2023 |title=How Anthropic's Daniela Amodei is keeping AI from spinning out of control |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90948058/how-anthropics-daniela-amodei-is-keeping-ai-grounded-in-safety |website=Fast Company}}</ref><ref name="time100" /> As president of Anthropic, she leads teams focused on AI safety and model alignment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most Powerful Women: Daniela Amodei |work=Fortune |url=https://fortune.com/ranking/most-powerful-women/2025/daniela-amodei/ |access-date=December 4, 2025}}</ref>
In September 2023, Daniela and her brother were named as two of the ''Time'' 100 Most Influential People in AI (''Time''100 AI).<ref name="time100">{{Cite web|last1=Will|first1=Henshall|last2=Perrigo|first2=Billy|url=https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309047/daniela-and-dario-amodei/|title=Time100 AI 2023: Dario and Daniela Amodei|date=September 7, 2023|website=Time}}</ref>
== Personal life == In August 2017, Daniela married Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of the effective altruism-based foundation Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy).<ref>{{Cite news |last1=McMillan |first1=Robert |last2=Seetharaman |first2=Deepa |date=November 22, 2023 |title=How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI |url=https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-blowup-effective-altruism-disaster-f46a55e8 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231124181330/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-blowup-effective-altruism-disaster-f46a55e8 |archive-date=November 24, 2023 |work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> They have a son.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bousquette |first=Isabelle |date=September 16, 2025 |title=How an Albino Alligator Became an Obsession Inside an AI Giant |url=https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/claude-albino-alligator-anthropic-8804a8b5 |access-date=December 4, 2025 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |url-access=subscription}}</ref> {{As of|2026|2|post=,}} ''Forbes'' estimated Amodei's net worth to be $7{{nbsp}}billion.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nieva |first=Richard |title=Despite Digs From Musk And Altman, Anthropic's Billionaire Founders Double Their Fortunes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/02/12/anthropics-seven-billionaire-cofounders-nearly-double-their-fortunes-as-ai-giants-valuation-soars-to-380-billion/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260219051549/https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/02/12/anthropics-seven-billionaire-cofounders-nearly-double-their-fortunes-as-ai-giants-valuation-soars-to-380-billion/ |archive-date=2026-02-19 |access-date=2026-02-20 |work=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>
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