D aniela Amodei is an American technology executive and a co-founder of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) research company with a strong focus on safety. Before starting her own venture, she was a key executive at OpenAI, one of the world's leading AI labs, where she served as Vice President of Safety and Policy. Her work has been central to the critical and growing field of ensuring that powerful AI systems are developed and deployed responsibly.

In 2021, she, along with her brother Dario Amodei and a group of other senior researchers, left OpenAI due to differing views on the company's direction. They founded Anthropic with the explicit mission of building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As the company's president, Daniela is a key leader in this ambitious effort. Anthropic has developed its own large language model, Claude, as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT series and has attracted billions of dollars in investment from major tech companies like Google and Amazon, making its co-founders billionaires on paper.