Alex Albert

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Research, Product ManagerMar 2025 – present
   • Head of Developer RelationsMar 2024 – Mar 2025
   • Prompt EngineerJun 2023 – Mar 2024

Education

• Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, University of Washington, 2023

Lesser-known facts

• Says he was one of the first people to jailbreak GPT-4.
• Wrote a 2023 newsletter with issues like "GPT-4 has ruined jailbreaks" and "Why everyone should write jailbreaks."
• Interned as a software engineer at Google and Capital One.
• Ran a retrieval test in which Claude 3 Opus noticed a planted fact looked artificially inserted into unrelated documents.
• Announced a 2024 Anthropic bounty paying up to $15,000 for universal jailbreaks in high-risk areas like CBRN and cybersecurity.
• Compares model development to gardening: what a model becomes stays uncertain until training begins.

Known for

• JailbreakChat (2023)
• Anthropic's first prompt engineer (2023)
• AI Engineer World's Fair keynote "What's new from Anthropic and what's next" (2024)

Interviews and talks

• Peter Yang podcast: Inside How Anthropic Is Building the Next Claude (2026)creatoreconomy.so
• A conversation on Claude Code, with Boris Cherny (2025)youtube.com
• First podcast appearance, on why jailbreaking ChatGPT is a public good (2023)podcasts.apple.com