Anthropic spent $2.75 million guarding Dario Amodei last year—more than 4 times his salary, but a fraction of Mark Zuckerberg’s security bill
Source: Fortune ·
Threats against AI executives jumped sevenfold this year. Anthropic’s IPO filing shows what it costs to keep its cofounders safe.
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Anthropic spent $2.75 million protecting cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei in 2025—more than four times his $654,167 base salary, according to the AI company’s newly public IPO filing. The security bill accounted for more than 15% of Amodei’s $17.96 million in total reported compensation for 2025, which also included stock and option awards. And Amodei wasn’t the only executive Anthropic paid to protect. The company spent another $1.29 million on personal protection, home security, and transportation for his sister, president and cofounder Daniela Amodei, plus $97,055 on private-aircraft travel for Dario that it said was required under his security program. Anthropic has maintained round-the-clock security since 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported in July. According to the S-1, Anthropic’s board determined in 2025 that enhanced protection for the Amodeis and their families was necessary, citing security studies, increased media attention, and what it called “bona fide…