Amodei first joined the AI field in late 2014, working at Baidu with Andrew Ng.

Judge as of 2024-11-11. True: Amodei joined Baidu's AI lab (led by Andrew Ng) in late 2014 (about September to December 2014), and this was his first role in AI. Mostly true: he joined Baidu with Ng within a few months of late 2014 (e.g. mid-2014 or early 2015), or he had earlier AI-adjacent work (e.g. computational neuroscience) but Baidu was his first AI industry role. Mixed: the Baidu/Ng role is correct, but the date is off by about a year, or there was clear earlier AI employment. Mostly false: he worked at Baidu, but not with Ng, or much later. False: he did not work at Baidu.

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1. E1 Dario Amodei - Wikipedia Wikipedia · 12 July 2023

   “From November 2014 until October 2015, he worked at Baidu.”

2. E2 Dario Amodei - Wikipedia Wikipedia · 12 July 2023

   “From 2014 to 2016, he worked on machine learning at Baidu and Google Brain.”

3. E3 Dario Amodei - Wikipedia Wikipedia · 12 July 2023

   “Amodei earned a doctorate in biophysics from Princeton University.”

E1, an independent source, says Amodei worked at Baidu from November 2014 to October 2015, which matches the claimed late-2014 start. E2 says his machine-learning work at Baidu and Google Brain ran from 2014 to 2016. E3 says his doctorate was in biophysics, which does not suggest earlier AI employment, though it may have been AI-adjacent work. None of the evidence says he worked in Andrew Ng's lab, so that part of the claim is not confirmed, and the verdict is mostly true rather than fully true.