
Dario Amodei
PersonHeard 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.
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Mentions of Dario Amodei per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, across the podcasts PodLume Trends follows.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 6 | 0.42‰ | 1 |
| Sep 7 | 0.25‰ | 1 |
| Sep 9 | 0.25‰ | 1 |
| Sep 10 | 0.32‰ | 5 |
| Sep 11 | 0.61‰ | 9 |
| Sep 12 | 0.65‰ | 2 |
| Sep 13 | 0.65‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 1.66‰ | 37 |
| Sep 15 | 2.32‰ | 22 |
| Sep 16 | 2.76‰ | 18 |
| Sep 17 | 3.03‰ | 19 |
| Sep 18 | 3.23‰ | 14 |
| Sep 19 | 3.40‰ | 11 |
| Sep 20 | 3.47‰ | 5 |
| Sep 21 | 2.61‰ | 6 |
| Sep 22 | 2.07‰ | 5 |
| Sep 23 | 1.86‰ | 10 |
| Sep 24 | 1.64‰ | 9 |
| Sep 25 | 1.52‰ | 11 |
| Sep 26 | 1.29‰ | 2 |
| Sep 27 | 1.33‰ | 7 |
| Sep 28 | 1.72‰ | 21 |
| Sep 29 | 2.20‰ | 21 |
| Sep 30 | 2.28‰ | 15 |
| Oct 1 | 2.15‰ | 3 |
| Oct 2 | 2.45‰ | 21 |
| Oct 4 | 2.24‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 1.70‰ | 1 |
| Oct 6 | 1.24‰ | 5 |
| Oct 7 | 1.03‰ | 6 |
What Dario Amodei has said on podcasts
34 statements
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”
Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in historyListen at 0:10
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”
Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in historyListen at 2:58
Reinforcement learning exhibits scaling similar to pretraining.
“we're seeing the same scaling in RL that we saw for pre training”
Open the episode · Dario Amodei — The highest-stakes financial model in historyListen at 5:21
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What others have said about Dario Amodei
3 statements · 1 positive · 1 negative · 1 neutral
Investors are concerned about granting Dario Amodei super-voting shares.
“investors are pretty nervous about giving the founders, or Dario specifically, super voting shares.”
Open the episode · Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta's Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment FailsListen at 32:37
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.”
Open the episode · Dario vs Jensen on Open Weights, OpenAI & Anthropic in DC, Xi Exports AI to Global South | EP #275Listen at 7:53
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”
Open the episode · SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?Listen at 13:42
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
- Oct 7, 2026
AI Safety Collides With the Race for SuperintelligenceMoonshots with Peter DiamandisOct 7, 2026 - Oct 7, 2026
AI infrastructure bets face a trillion-dollar revenue testBig Technology PodcastOct 7, 2026 - Oct 7, 2026
OpenAI insider warns frontier AI is outrunning human controlThe Ezra Klein ShowOct 7, 2026 - Oct 7, 2026
NVIDIA’s AI boom faces a circular-financing testBetter OfflineOct 7, 2026 - Oct 6, 2026
AI’s economic future hinges on augmentation versus replacementTBPNOct 6, 2026 - Oct 6, 2026
Michael Lewis warns DOGE weakened the government America needsThe Bulwark DailyOct 6, 2026
Works by Dario Amodei
We Must Pace the Frontiercreator · article · 2026
- MOMachines of Loving Grace
creator · article · 2024