“Closer to a religious leader than to a CEO”: Dario Amodei, the idealist boss of Anthropic, caught up by the financial markets
Portrait of the former physicist who became a leading figure in the regulation of artificial intelligence
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- Portrait of Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic.
- From his physics studies at Princeton to his commitment to the regulation of AI, the journey of a man marked by the premature loss of his father and an extraordinary scientific ambition.
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Dario Amodei is the co-founder of Anthropic, a company specializing in artificial intelligence. He initially followed an academic path in physics at Princeton University.
In mid-August, stung by an investor who declared him “beaten” in the battle around a regulation of artificial intelligence that he is calling for, Dario Amodei responded at length on “They probably would have cured it,” lamented the co-founder of Anthropic.
When his father died, the young man, then aged 23, was studying physics at Princeton. “He was very determined, very ambitious, quick-witted. He spoke with a slight stutter, but the ideas flowed,” recalls, for Le Figaro, his thesis director, Michael Berry, who saw a physicist arrive who decided to move on to biology. The project he entrusts to him is extremely difficult, he admits: making a sensor capable of recording 200 neurons at a time in a retina. “He is the most talented student that…
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