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Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an AI safety company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with her brother Dario Amodei.[2] Prior to her work at Anthropic, she was the vice president of safety and policy at OpenAI.[3]

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.[1][4][5] Her mother, Elena Engel, a Jewish American born in Chicago, worked as a project manager for libraries.[6] Daniela is the younger sister of Dario Amodei.

Daniela graduated from Lowell High School.[7] She received a scholarship to study classical flute and studied liberal arts and music,[1] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[8]

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.[9] At OpenAI, Amodei managed the team during GPT-2‘s development before moving into safety and policy.[1][10] She was the vice president of safety and policy there, but left in 2020 to co-found Anthropic with her brother Dario Amodei.[10][11] As president of Anthropic, she leads teams focused on AI safety and model alignment.[12]

In September 2023, Daniela and her brother were named as two of the Time 100 Most Influential People in AI (Time100 AI).[11]

Personal life

In August 2017, Daniela married Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of the effective altruism-based foundation Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy).[13] They have a son.[14] As of February 2026, Forbes estimated Amodei’s net worth to be $7 billion.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Levy, Steven (March 28, 2025). “If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born”. Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved December 4, 2025. Dario was born in 1983 and Daniela four years later.
  2. ^ Prescott, Katie (June 26, 2024). “Anthropic boss Daniela Amodei makes her pitch for ‘trustworthy’ AI”. www.thetimes.com.
  3. ^ Perrigo, Billy (30 May 2024). “Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy”. Time. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
  4. ^ Levy, Steven (2025-03-28). “If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born”. Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2026-02-21.
  5. ^ Frasso, Edoardo (2023-11-27). “Chi sono Dario e Daniela Amodei: gli italoamericani dell’AI etica”. AI News (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-02-27.
  6. ^ Levy, Steven. “If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born”. Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
  7. ^ “Lowell Alumni Newsletter Fall 2005 by Lowell Alumni Association – Issuu”. issuu.com. 2014-08-23. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
  8. ^ Amodei, Daniela. “Daniela Amodei LinkedIn”.
  9. ^ Palazzolo, Stephanie (April 24, 2023). “How Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei plans to turn trust and safety into a feature, not a bug”. Business Insider.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ^ a b Sullivan, Mark (September 6, 2023). “How Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei is keeping AI from spinning out of control”. Fast Company.
  11. ^ a b Will, Henshall; Perrigo, Billy (September 7, 2023). “Time100 AI 2023: Dario and Daniela Amodei”. Time.
  12. ^ “Most Powerful Women: Daniela Amodei”. Fortune. Retrieved December 4, 2025.
  13. ^ McMillan, Robert; Seetharaman, Deepa (November 22, 2023). “How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI”. The Wall Street Journal.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  14. ^ Bousquette, Isabelle (September 16, 2025). “How an Albino Alligator Became an Obsession Inside an AI Giant”. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 4, 2025.
  15. ^ Nieva, Richard. “Despite Digs From Musk And Altman, Anthropic’s Billionaire Founders Double Their Fortunes”. Forbes. Archived from the original on 2026-02-19. Retrieved 2026-02-20.