Daniela Amodei Helps Run a Company Eyeing a $2 Trillion IPO. Her Consultants Are Stuffed Animals

The Anthropic president uses a perfectionist pink bear, a lackadaisical cat, and an empathetic panda to work through real management decisions.

BY CHLOE ROSENBERG, FREELANCE WRITER

Anthropic President Daniela Amodei. Illustration: Inc; Photo: Getty Images

Daniela Amodei, the sister of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sits at the helm of one of the most powerful AI companies in the world. As the company’s president, she helps handle much of Anthropic’s operations while her brother warns about a possible incoming AI apocalypse.

Of the eight co-founders of Anthropic, all but Daniela are men. Most of them have backgrounds in physics or engineering, while she went to college on a flute scholarship for an English degree. She is lauded as the Amodei sibling who values the humanities and is more personable. A largely positive CNBC profile of her described her as “the opposite of the AI founder archetype personified by........

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