# Alex Albert

Research and product · Research product manager at Anthropic · joined 2023

Built JailbreakChat as a student and became Anthropic's first prompt engineer.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/alex-albert

**At Anthropic:**
- Mar 2025 – present: Research, Product Manager
- Mar 2024 – Mar 2025: Head of Developer Relations
- Jun 2023 – Mar 2024: Prompt Engineer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-albert)

**Education:**
- Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, University of Washington, 2023
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-albert)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Says he was one of the first people to jailbreak GPT-4. [1](https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1821568342559511038)
- Wrote a 2023 newsletter with issues like "GPT-4 has ruined jailbreaks" and "Why everyone should write jailbreaks." [1](https://alexalbert.beehiiv.com/)
- Interned as a software engineer at Google and Capital One. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-albert)
- Ran a retrieval test in which Claude 3 Opus noticed a planted fact looked artificially inserted into unrelated documents. [1](https://ai.engineer/speakers/alex-albert)
- Announced a 2024 Anthropic bounty paying up to $15,000 for universal jailbreaks in high-risk areas like CBRN and cybersecurity. [1](https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1821568342559511038)
- Compares model development to gardening: what a model becomes stays uncertain until training begins. [1](https://www.techflowpost.com/en-US/article/31619)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Peter Yang podcast: Inside How Anthropic Is Building the Next Claude (2026)](https://creatoreconomy.so/p/inside-how-anthropic-is-building-the-next-claude)
- [A conversation on Claude Code, with Boris Cherny (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_1w00qIKc)
- [First podcast appearance, on why jailbreaking ChatGPT is a public good (2023)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-jailbreaking-chatgpt-is-a-public-good-with/id1669813431?i=1000609968067)

**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)
Sources: [1](https://ai.engineer/speakers/alex-albert)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people