Long before she became President of Anthropic, Daniela Amodei was a kid growing up in San Francisco.
She rode the 9 San Bruno to Lowell High School. Her earliest memories are of visits to the San Francisco Zoo and weekly stops at La Taqueria. Like so many Bay Area residents, her connection to the city runs deep.
But growing up here also taught her something. “That zip code is destiny in ways that it shouldn’t be,” she shared at Tipping Point’s annual Benefit this past May. “That the extraordinary promise of this city isn’t equally distributed.”
Artificial intelligence holds enormous promise. It has the potential to expand access to knowledge, opportunity, and tools that have historically been available only to a privileged few. But progress alone does not guarantee a better future. As technology advances and reshapes how people work, learn, and access information, Daniela believes society faces an important choice.
“What worries me most isn’t the technology,” she said. “It’s the choice we make about what we are building it toward.”
For Daniela, that choice is about opportunity. The Bay Area has long been the center of innovation. The challenge now is to bring people along, to ensure everyone can participate in and benefit from that progress.
For more than two decades, Tipping Point has worked to expand opportunity and access across the Bay Area. As AI reshapes what’s possible, this work is more important than ever.
Learn more about Tipping Point’s partnership with Anthropic.
