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Title: CEO Company: Anthropic Industry: Technology

Dario is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anthropic, the public benefit corporation behind the Claude model series. A former VP of Research at OpenAI, he left to establish a lab prioritising safety through Constitutional AI, a method where models are trained to follow a specific set of principles rather than just human feedback. Dario has successfully positioned Claude as the premium choice for enterprise and coding, with the 2025 release of Claude 4 cementing the firm’ s reputation for nuance and reliability. He is a pragmatic leader who openly discusses the exponential curve of AI progress, predicting that models could exceed human capability in most economic tasks by 2026 or 2027. Dario focuses on interpretability, funding research to look inside the black box of neural networks, arguing that we must understand how systems think before entrusting them with critical infrastructure.

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