Daniela Amodei

Early life Daniela Amodei was born in San Francisco in 1987. Her father, Riccardo Amodei, an Italian American leather craftsman from Massa Marittima, Tuscany, died when Amodei was a young adult after years of health problems. Her mother, Elena Engel, a Jewish American born in Chicago, worked as a project manager for libraries. She received a classical flute scholarship and studied liberal arts and music,

Career Amodei started her career in global health and politics, playing a role in a successful congressional campaign in Pennsylvania. She then briefly managed communications for House Representative Matt Cartwright in Washington D.C., before leaving politics for the tech industry. In 2013, she joined the financial service company Stripe as an early employee, before transitioning to OpenAI in 2018. At OpenAI, Amodei managed the team during GPT-2's development before moving into safety and policy.

In September 2023, Daniela and her brother were named as two of the Time 100 Most Influential People in AI (Time100 AI).

Personal life In August 2017, Daniela married Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of the effective altruism-based foundation Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy). They have a son. Forbes estimated Amodei's net worth to be $7billion.