LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT IN AI

One of the most influential people in AI today , Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei has had a remarkable journey in developing reliable AI systems

WRITTEN BY : AMBER JACKSON

Since co-founding Anthropic in 2021 , the company has garnered global attention and even billions of invested dollars by the likes of Amazon , SAP and Google . With this in mind , the future of the company appears bright as Amodei aims to lay the foundation for a new future of AI .

Her work is a testament to the importance of developing and harnessing transparent and ethical AI systems that prioritise the advancement of humanity .

Redefining AI : A ‘ people first ’ approach Amodei did not originally come from a technology background , having attended the University of California Santa Cruz on a music scholarship . When she joined financial services company Stripe in 2013 , she started in recruitment before moving to risk programme management .

It was here that Amodei got her first experience with machine learning in a business context , working crossfunctionally with machine learning , data science , engineering , legal , finance and vendor management . She helped launch the first risk vendor programme , in addition to developing fraud , credit and policy features for models .

Having left Stripe in 2018 , she moved to OpenAI to oversee natural language processing and music generation teams . Her work also saw her act as Vice President of People , where she worked in recruiting , people programs , DEI and learning and development .

Having concerns that the company was commercialising AI technology too quickly , Amodei – alongside her brother and fellow Anthropic co-founder , Dario Amodei , left OpenAI in 2020 . They cited that this was over disagreements regarding the safe development and governance of AI .

The siblings truly believe that AI needed to be defined in accordance with humanity – acting as a copilot , rather than something that could one day supersede society .

“ Our research and safety focus was our primary emphasis ,” Amodei said in an interview on how the company differs from OpenAI . “ We have this view that safety is incredibly valuable and economically viable .”

Anthropic : Ensuring a safe AI-driven society With Anthropic , the Amodei siblings pride themselves on taking a safe and responsible approach to AI . Instead of focusing on the ‘ cutting-edge ’

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