Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei

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Heard in 236 episodes across 55 shows since Feb 2026

Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. He previously served as the vice president of research at OpenAI and is a prominent figure in the field of AI safety and large language model development.

Discussed inAI & Tech44%Politics26%Business15%Markets13%

Episodes

236
across 55 shows

This week

25
episodes on 18 shows

Share of the conversation

1.0‰
0.9× its usual level

Guest appearances

4

Share of the conversation

Mentions of Dario Amodei per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, across the podcasts PodLume Trends follows.

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What Dario Amodei has said on podcasts

34 statements

  1. on AI capability progressPositiveFeb 13, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    AI capability progress has broadly matched Dario Amodei’s expectations.

    “the underlying technology, like the exponential of the technology has gone broadly speaking, I would say about as I expected it to go”

    Listen at 0:10

    Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in history
  2. on AI scalingNeutralFeb 13, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Scaling outcomes depend less on clever techniques than on a few broad factors.

    “all the cleverness, all the techniques, all the kind of we need a new method to do something like that doesn't very much”

    Listen at 2:58

    Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in history
  3. Reinforcement learning exhibits scaling similar to pretraining.

    “we're seeing the same scaling in RL that we saw for pre training”

    Listen at 5:21

    Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in history

Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.

What others have said about Dario Amodei

3 statements · 1 positive · 1 negative · 1 neutral

  1. Investors are concerned about granting Dario Amodei super-voting shares.

    “investors are pretty nervous about giving the founders, or Dario specifically, super voting shares.”

    Listen at 32:37

    Open the episode · Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta's Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails
  2. Dario’s safety position reflects his genuine beliefs, even at Anthropic’s expense.

    “Dario is a brilliant guy laying it out exactly the way he sees it, even at the expense of his own valuation.”

    Listen at 7:53

    Open the episode · Dario vs Jensen on Open Weights, OpenAI & Anthropic in DC, Xi Exports AI to Global South | EP #275
  3. Dario Amodei has an incentive to promote regulation creating a moat for Anthropic.

    “It makes enormous sense for Dario to try to create the boundary conditions for a regulatory moat”

    Listen at 13:42

    Open the episode · SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.

Episodes

236 episodes featuring Dario Amodei, newest first

Works by Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei · PodLume