He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude AI.

[4] He also holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University, where he studied electrophysiology of neural circuits.

[9] In July 2023, Amodei warned a United States Senate judiciary panel of the dangers of AI, including the risks it poses in the development and control of weaponry.

[11] In November 2023, the board of directors of OpenAI approached Amodei about replacing Sam Altman and potentially merging the two startups.

[12] In October 2024, Amodei published an essay named "Machines of Loving Grace",[13] in which he lays out a vision for how AI could radically improve human welfare assuming the risks are successfully managed.