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Daniela Amodei

President of Anthropic; co-founder

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Quick profileDaniela Amodei ranks #17 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) — public researchers, engineers, and builders ranked by influence. Not an intelligence test.

Daniela Amodei ranks #17 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) as a public figure whose work shaped how AI is researched, engineered, or deployed. President of Anthropic; co-founder.

Associated primarily with Anthropic, Amodei is known for: Anthropic co-founder/president; Safety-oriented company building; Enterprise Claude adoption era. Those threads generate the search demand we map in the keyword doors on this page — name queries, lab queries, and the breakthrough phrases people type after a news cycle.

Influence, on our methodology, is not a personality contest. It is the combination of ideas others reuse, systems others ship on top of, institutions that allocate talent and capital, and public conversation that changes what builders and buyers do next.

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Anthropic co-founder/president

Known for

  • Anthropic co-founder/president
  • Safety-oriented company building
  • Enterprise Claude adoption era

Timeline

  • 2021 — Co-founds Anthropic
  • 2023–26 — Scales Anthropic as major lab

Citations & further reading

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