Daniela Amodei

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • President and co-founderDec 2020 – present
2. 
   OpenAI

   • VP of Safety and PolicyMay 2020 – Dec 2020
   • Engineering Manager + VP of PeopleOct 2018 – May 2020
3. 
   Stripe

   • Risk Manager: Core Operations, User Policy, and UnderwritingJan 2016 – Jul 2018
   • Risk Program ManagerAug 2015 – Jan 2016
   • Lead Technical RecruiterMay 2013 – Jul 2015
4. U
   U.S. House of Representatives

   • Scheduling and CommunicationsJan 2013 – May 2013
5. M
   Matt Cartwright for Congress

   • Field DirectorJun 2012 – Nov 2012
   • Deputy Field DirectorFeb 2012 – May 2012
6. I
   IRIS Center, University of Maryland, College Park

   • Business DevelopmentJan 2010 – Aug 2011

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Lesser-known facts

• Studied English literature at UC Santa Cruz, on a classical flute scholarship.
• Worked on a congressional campaign and in the U.S. House before tech.
• Spent five years at Stripe, starting as a technical recruiter and ending in risk.
• Says she would still major in literature if she did it over.
• Managed the team at OpenAI during GPT-2's development before moving into safety and policy.
• Argues that the number of jobs AI can do without people is "vanishingly small."
• Told ABC News that as AI gets more capable, the most valuable skills will be the ones that make us recognizably human.
• Looks for strong communicators with high EQ, kindness, curiosity and a desire to help others when hiring at Anthropic.
• Visited Anthropic's new London offices in July 2026, built for up to 800 staff against about 200 at the time.
• Said in 2026: "AI is becoming a geopolitical issue. It's not just the province of business anymore."

Honors

TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (2023)

Interviews and talks

• Commonwealth Club conversation with Larry Baer on leading in San Francisco (2026)commonwealthclub.org