THE MAKING OF DARIO AMODEI

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Anthropic's outspoken CEO attributes his passion for scientific progress to a personal tragedy: his father died from a rare illness just four years before researchers developed a cure that turned it from 50% fatal to 95% curable. That near-miss with scientific timing caused Amodei to abandon theoretical physics for biology and eventually turn his attention to AI, where he has played a key role in research responsible for AI's rapid acceleration.