Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.4 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Daniela Amodei is president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Amodei manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience to further the company’s goal of building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Emily Ma, Amodei talks about how Anthropic’s team of co-founders have built values and ethical guardrails into their AI tools from day one, and how this can inform other AI companies.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series. |
| 0:04.0 | Brought to you by Stanford Ecorner. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series, the Stanford |
| 0:11.0 | Seminar for Aspiring Entrepreneurs. |
| 0:14.0 | ETL is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, |
| 0:19.0 | and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurne |
| 0:21.9 | Students. My name is Emily Ma and I head up special projects in real estate and workplace |
| 0:26.1 | services at Google. Today I'm so excited to have Daniela with me from Anthropic. |
| 0:32.6 | Daniela Amadeh is the president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. She manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience |
| 0:41.3 | to further the company's goals of building reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems. |
| 0:47.3 | Before co-founding Anthropic in 2020, |
| 0:50.3 | Daniela was the VP of Safety and Policy at Open AI and managed the people and research engineering teams prior to that. |
| 0:58.0 | Even before that, she was part of the early team at Stripe, where she managed recruiting and later led risk operations. |
| 1:05.0 | She previously worked in international development and served as a congressional staffer. |
| 1:10.0 | Danielle and her brother, |
| 1:11.7 | Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario, were named to times 100 most influential people in |
| 1:17.0 | artificial intelligence in 2023. She received her BA in English Literature, Politics, and Music, |
| 1:22.5 | at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Everyone, please give a huge round of applause to Daniela on Valentine's Day. |
| 1:33.0 | All right. Well, let's start with a big question. So you are the first of this winter quarter |
| 1:39.3 | who is a co-founder. And we've had, over the course of the last 25 years, |
| 1:45.0 | in this auditorium, a number of co-founders |
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