Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and a former research leader at OpenAI, is highlighted for his widely discussed observation on artificial intelligence. The quote, featured as the Quote of the Day, states: "I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be." The statement appears in Amodei's 2024 essay *Machines of Loving Grace*, which explores possibilities for AI to accelerate scientific discovery, improve healthcare, transform education, and raise living standards while also creating challenges. Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with several former OpenAI researchers, including his sister Daniela Amodei, and the company produces the Claude family of language models. Before Anthropic, he served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, contributing to the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3, and earlier worked as a research scientist at Google Brain. His work has focused on developing AI with appropriate safeguards while allowing innovation to continue.