# Anthropic's leadership team and org chart

42 co-founders, executives and researchers at Anthropic, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people

## Anthropic org chart

Anthropic does not publish an org chart. This groups its leadership team by function from public titles; "reports to" appears only where a source states it.

- **Dario Amodei**, CEO
- **Daniela Amodei**, President
- Research: [Jared Kaplan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jared-kaplan) (Chief Science Officer)
- Engineering: [Rahul Patil](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/rahul-patil) (CTO); [Eric Boyd](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/eric-boyd) (Head of Infrastructure); [Vitaly Gudanets](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/vitaly-gudanets) (CISO); [Jason Clinton](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jason-clinton) (Deputy CISO)
- Compute: [Tom Brown](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/tom-brown) (Chief Compute Officer)
- Architecture: [Sam McCandlish](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sam-mccandlish) (Chief Architect)
- Product: [Ami Vora](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ami-vora) (Chief Product Officer)
- Labs: [Mike Krieger](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mike-krieger) (Labs co-lead, reports to Daniela Amodei); [Ben Mann](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ben-mann) (Labs co-lead)
- Commercial: [Paul Smith](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/paul-smith) (Chief Commercial Officer); [Chris Ciauri](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-ciauri) (Managing Director, International); [Kate Jensen](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kate-jensen) (Head of Americas)
- Finance: [Krishna Rao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/krishna-rao) (CFO)
- Legal: [Brian Israel](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/brian-israel) (Chief Legal Officer)
- People: [Hannah Pritchett](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/hannah-pritchett) (Chief People Officer)
- Brand and communications: [Sasha de Marigny](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sasha-de-marigny) (Chief Brand and Communications Officer)
- Global affairs and public benefit: [Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mariano-florentino-cuellar) (Chief Global Affairs Officer, reports to Daniela Amodei); [Jack Clark](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jack-clark) (Head of Public Benefit); [Jeff Bleich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jeff-bleich) (International Special Envoy)

### Research teams

- Interpretability: [Chris Olah](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-olah) (Interpretability lead); [Joshua Batson](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/joshua-batson) (Interpretability); [Jack Lindsey](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jack-lindsey) (Model psychiatry); [Trenton Bricken](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/trenton-bricken) (Interpretability)
- Alignment science: [Jan Leike](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jan-leike) (Alignment Science team lead); [Evan Hubinger](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/evan-hubinger) (Alignment Science org lead); [Ethan Perez](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ethan-perez) (Alignment research lead)
- Pretraining: [Nick Joseph](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nick-joseph) (Head of Pre-training); [Andrej Karpathy](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/andrej-karpathy) (Pretraining research)
- Reasoning and RL: [Julian Schrittwieser](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/julian-schrittwieser) (Reasoning research); [Sholto Douglas](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sholto-douglas) (Reinforcement learning researcher)
- Safety, red team and security: [Logan Graham](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/logan-graham) (Head of Frontier Red Team); [Holden Karnofsky](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/holden-karnofsky) (Safety planning); [Nicholas Carlini](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nicholas-carlini) (Security research)
- Character and model welfare: [Amanda Askell](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/amanda-askell) (Personality alignment lead); [Kyle Fish](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kyle-fish) (Model welfare)
- Machine learning research: [Durk Kingma](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/durk-kingma) (Researcher); [Jascha Sohl-Dickstein](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jascha-sohl-dickstein) (Researcher)
- Claude Code: [Boris Cherny](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/boris-cherny) (Creator of Claude Code)
- Research product: [Alex Albert](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/alex-albert) (Research product manager)

## Co-founders

### Dario Amodei

Co-founders · CEO at Anthropic · joined 2021

Trained as a biophysicist, worked a stint as a geophysicist, then led research at OpenAI before leaving to start Anthropic.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/dario-amodei

> “we didn’t feel that the leadership there was taking these things seriously. And so we decided to go off and do this on our own.” [1](https://www.cfr.org/event/ceo-speaker-series-dario-amodei-anthropic)

**At Anthropic:**
- Feb 2021 – present: CEO and Co-Founder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Dec 2019 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Vice President of Research
- Sep 2018 – Dec 2019: OpenAI, Research Director
- Jul 2016 – Sep 2018: OpenAI, Team Lead for AI Safety
- Oct 2015 – Jul 2016: Google, Senior Research Scientist
- Nov 2014 – Oct 2015: Baidu, Research Scientist
- May 2013 – Dec 2014: Skyline Targeted Proteomics Environment, Software Developer (part-time)
- Dec 2011 – Dec 2014: Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Feb 2008 – 2013: Applied Minds, Consultant
- Feb 2004 – Sep 2004: Schlumberger, Geophysicist
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)

**Education:**
- PhD, (Bio)physics, Princeton University, 2011
- BS, Physics, Stanford University, 2006
- Progress towards BS, Physics, Caltech, 2001–2003
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Did a PhD in biophysics at Princeton (2011) after a physics degree at Stanford. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)
- Worked as a geophysicist at Schlumberger in 2004, years before AI. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)
- Credited as a co-inventor of reinforcement learning from human feedback. [1](https://darioamodei.com/)
- Made the USA Physics Olympiad team in 2000. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei)
- Started college at Caltech as one of Tom Tombrello's Physics 11 students, then transferred to Stanford. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei)
- Worked part-time as a software developer on Skyline, a targeted proteomics tool, and consulted for Applied Minds. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)
- Worked at Baidu from November 2014 to October 2015, then at Google Brain, before joining OpenAI in 2016. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei)
- Set out his scaling view in a 2017 document called "The Big Blob of Compute Hypothesis" and says he still holds it. [1](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2)
- Runs a biweekly all-hands called the DVQ, short for Dario Vision Quest, speaking for an hour to the whole company. [1](https://fortune.com/article/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-company-culture-40-percent-ipo-ai-tech-leadership/)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016), author 1 of 6: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565
- Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017), author 6 of 6: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741
- Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences (2019), author 6 of 8: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593
- Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners (2019), author 5 of 6: https://cdn.openai.com/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 31 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
- Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback (2020), author 8 of 9: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01325
- Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling (2020), author 18 of 19: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14701
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), author 10 of 10: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Dwarkesh Podcast: "We are near the end of the exponential" (2026)](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2)

**Known for:**
- GPT-2
- GPT-3
- Scaling laws for neural language models (2020)
- Deep Speech 2
- Constitutional AI
- Responsible scaling policy
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-amodei-3934934)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-16 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/dario-amodei/)

### Daniela Amodei

Co-founders · President at Anthropic · joined 2020

An English literature major who went from congressional campaigns to Stripe and OpenAI. She now runs Anthropic day to day and chairs its board.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/daniela-amodei

> “We were running towards something versus running away from something. We had this vision in our heads of wanting to create an organization where the values that matter to us around safety and around responsibility were at the forefront of what we were doing.” [1](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/daniela-amodei-says-curiosity-underrated)

**At Anthropic:**
- Dec 2020 – present: President and co-founder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2020 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, VP of Safety and Policy
- Oct 2018 – May 2020: OpenAI, Engineering Manager + VP of People
- Jan 2016 – Jul 2018: Stripe, Risk Manager: Core Operations, User Policy, and Underwriting
- Aug 2015 – Jan 2016: Stripe, Risk Program Manager
- May 2013 – Jul 2015: Stripe, Lead Technical Recruiter
- Jan 2013 – May 2013: U.S. House of Representatives, Scheduling and Communications
- Jun 2012 – Nov 2012: Matt Cartwright for Congress, Field Director
- Feb 2012 – May 2012: Matt Cartwright for Congress, Deputy Field Director
- Jan 2010 – Aug 2011: IRIS Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Business Development
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)

**Education:**
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied English literature at UC Santa Cruz, on a classical flute scholarship. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei)
- Worked on a congressional campaign and in the U.S. House before tech. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)
- Spent five years at Stripe, starting as a technical recruiter and ending in risk. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)
- Says she would still major in literature if she did it over. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei)
- Managed the team at OpenAI during GPT-2's development before moving into safety and policy. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei)
- Argues that the number of jobs AI can do without people is "vanishingly small." [1](https://www.santacruzworks.org/news/daniela-amodei-and-the-return-of-the-humanities)
- Told ABC News that as AI gets more capable, the most valuable skills will be the ones that make us recognizably human. [1](https://www.santacruzworks.org/news/daniela-amodei-and-the-return-of-the-humanities)
- Looks for strong communicators with high EQ, kindness, curiosity and a desire to help others when hiring at Anthropic. [1](https://www.santacruzworks.org/news/daniela-amodei-and-the-return-of-the-humanities)
- Visited Anthropic's new London offices in July 2026, built for up to 800 staff against about 200 at the time. [1](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/07/02/anthropic-president-daniela-amodei-we-must-embrace-both-the-positive-side-and-the-dark-side-of-ai_6755092_19.html)
- Said in 2026: "AI is becoming a geopolitical issue. It's not just the province of business anymore." [1](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/07/02/anthropic-president-daniela-amodei-we-must-embrace-both-the-positive-side-and-the-dark-side-of-ai_6755092_19.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Commonwealth Club conversation with Larry Baer on leading in San Francisco (2026)](https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-05-01/hometown-builders-daniela-amodei-and-larry-baer-leading-san-francisco)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/daniela-amodei/)

### Jared Kaplan

Co-founders · Chief Science Officer at Anthropic · joined 2021

A theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins who co-wrote the 2020 scaling-laws paper while consulting for OpenAI.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jared-kaplan

**At Anthropic:**
- Oct 2024 – present: Responsible Scaling Officer
- Jan 2021 – present: Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kaplan)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jan 2019 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Research Consultant
- Sep 2012: Johns Hopkins University, Professor
- Sep 2009 – Aug 2013: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-kaplan-645843213)

**Education:**
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Harvard University, 2009
- Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Math, Stanford University, 2005
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-kaplan-645843213)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- PhD in physics from Harvard (2009); worked on quantum gravity and AdS/CFT before AI. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-kaplan-645843213) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kaplan)
- Met Dario Amodei in graduate school; they later shared an apartment in San Francisco. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kaplan-ai-safety-concerns-last-year-gain-traction-anthropic-2026-9)
- Trains in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kaplan-ai-safety-concerns-last-year-gain-traction-anthropic-2026-9)
- Got into physics wanting to build a faster-than-light drive, and was at first skeptical that AI was a big deal. [1](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ml-scaling-and-the-road-to-human-level-ai-anthropic-co-founder-jared-kaplan)
- Co-wrote "The Effective Field Theory of Inflation," an influential cosmology paper. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kaplan-ai-safety-concerns-last-year-gain-traction-anthropic-2026-9)
- Started researching machine learning in early 2018 while on the Johns Hopkins physics faculty, aiming to help make these systems safe. [1](https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/jared-kaplan/)
- Co-wrote the 2021 Codex paper, "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code," with OpenAI researchers. [1](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KNr3vb4AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Decided in May 2025 that Claude Opus 4 needed AI Safety Level 3 protections after tests showed it could help amateurs with bioweapons. [1](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305824/jared-kaplan/)
- Told the Guardian humanity must decide by 2027 to 2030 whether to let AI recursively self-improve, calling it "the ultimate risk." [1](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/jared-kaplan-artificial-intelligence-train-itself)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 5 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
- Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling (2020), author 2 of 19: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14701
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), author 1 of 10: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361

**Interviews and talks:**
- [YC AI Startup School talk on scaling and the road to human-level AI (2025)](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ml-scaling-and-the-road-to-human-level-ai-anthropic-co-founder-jared-kaplan)
- [Simons Foundation lecture "Why Quantum Gravity Is Different" (2018)](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/jared-kaplan/)

**Known for:**
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
- A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators (2011)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kaplan)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/jared-kaplan/)

### Jack Clark

Co-founders · Head of Public Benefit at Anthropic · joined 2021

A tech journalist at Bloomberg and The Register before OpenAI. He still writes the Import AI newsletter he started in 2016.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jack-clark

**At Anthropic:**
- Current: Co-founder and Head of Public Benefit
- Jan 2021: Co-founder and Head of Policy
Sources: [1](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership) [2](https://jack-clark.net/about/)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Oct 2018 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Policy Director
- Oct 2016 – Oct 2018: OpenAI, Strategy & Communications
- Oct 2015 – Aug 2016: Bloomberg LP, Google/AI/AWS Reporter
- Aug 2014 – Oct 2015: Bloomberg LP, Enterprise Tech Reporter
- Feb 2013 – Jul 2014: The Register, Reporter
- Jul 2010 – Jan 2013: CBS Interactive (UK), Reporter, ZDNet UK
- Aug 2009 – Jun 2010: Adfero, Researcher and Reporter
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317)

**Education:**
- BA, English Literature with Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, 2006-2009
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied English literature with creative writing at the University of East Anglia. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317)
- Reported on enterprise tech and AI for ZDNet UK, The Register and Bloomberg. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317)
- Writes short science fiction stories inside Import AI. [1](https://jack-clark.net/about/)
- Founding member of Stanford's AI Index and an inaugural member of the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee. [1](https://jack-clark.net/about/)
- Briefed the UN Security Council on AI threats to global peace in 2023. [1](https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E1248)
- Told a House committee in June 2025 that powerful AI could be buildable by late 2026 or early 2027. [1](https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ZS/ZS00/20250625/118428/HHRG-119-ZS00-Wstate-ClarkJ-20250625.pdf)
- Became a U.S. citizen, saying he believes in America's founding values of democracy and free expression. [1](https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ZS/ZS00/20250625/118428/HHRG-119-ZS00-Wstate-ClarkJ-20250625.pdf)
- Calls himself a "technological pessimist who became an optimist through repeated beatings over the head of scale." [1](https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E1248)
- Wrote in Import AI 476 that full recursive self-improvement now looks more likely in 2027 than in 2028. [1](https://jack-clark.net/)
- Told NPR in 2026: "We've seen warning shots, and that gives us a window in which we can act." [1](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/nx-s1-5968852/anthropic-jack-clark-ai-risks-safety)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 26 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

**Interviews and talks:**
- [NPR Morning Edition interview on AI risks and potential solutions (2026)](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/nx-s1-5968852/anthropic-jack-clark-ai-risks-safety)

**Known for:**
- Import AI (newsletter, started Aug 2016)
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/jack-clark/)

### Chris Olah

Co-founders · Interpretability lead at Anthropic · joined 2021

Left the University of Toronto after one year, without finishing a degree, and became one of the founders of interpretability research.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-olah

**At Anthropic:**
- Mar 2021 – present: Cofounder, Interpretability Research Lead
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-olah-b574414a)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Sep 2018 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff
- Nov 2016 – Sep 2018: Google Brain, Research Scientist
- Oct 2015 – Nov 2016: Google Brain, Research Associate
- Jun 2011 – Sep 2011: Xelerance, Developer
- Jul 2010 – Nov 2010: Environment Canada, Developer, Adaptations and Impacts Research Division
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-olah-b574414a)

**Education:**
- University of Toronto (attended, studied mathematics for one year before dropping out, no degree)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Olah)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied mathematics at Toronto for one year and has no degree. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Olah)
- Received a Thiel Fellowship in 2012. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Olah)
- Joined Google Brain as an intern in 2014; DeepDream (2015) is among his early work. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-olah-b574414a)
- Co-founded Distill, an interactive machine learning journal, in 2017. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical)
- Published a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Unbound DNS resolver in 2011, logged as CVE-2011-1922. [1](https://colah.github.io/cv.pdf)
- Created the meta-SNE algorithm, which maps the space of neural networks, during a 2014 Google Brain internship hosted by Jeff Dean. [1](https://colah.github.io/cv.pdf)
- Started the journal Distill to reduce what he calls "research debt" by explaining existing results unusually clearly. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/chris-olah-unconventional-career-path/)
- Spoke at the Vatican launch of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical in May 2026, the only Big Tech representative invited. [1](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/anthropics-olah-says-ai-must-be-guided-outside-big-tech-2026-05-25/)
- Says his team keeps finding internal states in models that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016), author 2 of 6: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565
- The Building Blocks of Interpretability (2018), author 1 of 7: https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/
- Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits (2020), author 1 of 6: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/

**Interviews and talks:**
- [80,000 Hours Podcast on interpretability research](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/chris-olah-interpretability-research/)
- [80,000 Hours Podcast on his unconventional career path](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/chris-olah-unconventional-career-path/)

**Known for:**
- The Building Blocks of Interpretability (2018)
- Circuits (2020)
- Multimodal neurons in CLIP (2021)
- Activation atlases (2019)
- DeepDream (2015)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Olah)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/christopher-olah/)

### Ben Mann

Co-founders · Labs co-lead at Anthropic · joined 2021

One of the architects of GPT-3 at OpenAI. His own site calls him a software engineer, tinkerer and aspiring mad scientist.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ben-mann

**At Anthropic:**
- Feb 2021 – present: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mann)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jul 2019 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff
- Jun 2018 – May 2019: Unnamed startup, Founder
- Nov 2017 – Jun 2018: Google, Senior Software Engineer
- Jul 2017 – Oct 2017: Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Software Engineer
- Mar 2017 – May 2017: OpenAI, Software Engineer
- Jul 2013 – Sep 2016: Google, Senior Software Engineer
- Sep 2011 – Jul 2013: Google, Software Engineer
- May 2010 – Aug 2010: Google, Software Engineer
- Sep 2008 – Jan 2009: Columbia University, Robotics Group, Research Associate
- Jun 2006 – Dec 2006: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Research Assistant
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mann)

**Education:**
- Columbia University
Sources: [1](https://observer.com/2026/04/anthropic-top-executives-after-labs-launch/)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Graduated magna cum laude from Columbia in 2011. [1](https://yespress.io/benjamin-ben-mann)
- Built Webtendo, which turned a laptop into a game console and phones into controllers, and chased latency under 30 milliseconds. [1](https://yespress.io/benjamin-ben-mann)
- Was one of three co-first authors of the 2020 GPT-3 paper, listed second after Tom Brown. [1](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/benjamin_mann)
- Worked on infrastructure, efficiency and safety for GPT-3 while at OpenAI. [1](https://aiconference.com/speakers/ben-mann/)
- Created Anthropic's Labs team in 2024 to explore new product ideas; it went on to build Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-labs-team-ai-innovation-ipo-2026-9)
- Describes himself as Anthropic's "engineer of last resort." [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mann)
- Puts his 50th percentile estimate for reaching some kind of superintelligence at around 2028. [1](https://lifearchitect.ai/mann/)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 2 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
- Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling (2020), author 12 of 19: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14701

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Lenny's Podcast interview with the Anthropic co-founder (2025)](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropic-co-founder-benjamin-mann)

**Known for:**
- GPT-3 (architect)
Sources: [1](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropic-co-founder-benjamin-mann)

### Sam McCandlish

Co-founders · Chief Architect at Anthropic · joined 2021

A theoretical physicist who wrote his Stanford PhD on quantum gravity, then co-wrote GPT-3 and the scaling-laws paper.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sam-mccandlish

**At Anthropic:**
- Oct 2025 – present: Co-founder and Chief Architect
- Jan 2021 – Oct 2025: Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership) [2](https://www.alphaxiv.org/@sam-mccandlish)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2018 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff
- Jan 2017 – Dec 2018: Boston University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccandlish)

**Education:**
- PhD, Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, 2017
- BS (Math & Physics) and MS (Physics), Brandeis University, 2012
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccandlish)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford (2017), on quantum gravity and tensor networks. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccandlish) [2](https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E1259)
- Has more than 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. [1](https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E1259)
- Earned both a BS in math and physics and an MS in physics at Brandeis before his Stanford PhD. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccandlish)
- Did an AI safety fellowship at OpenAI and went on to build its science-of-AI team. [1](https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/sam-mccandlish/)
- First-authored "An Empirical Model of Large-Batch Training" (2018), which introduced the gradient noise scale for predicting useful batch size. [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06162)
- Served as Anthropic's CTO until October 2025, when Rahul Patil took the title and he became Chief Architect. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/rahul-patil-joins-anthropic)
- Said of the founding: "None of us initially set out to found a company. We simply felt it was our responsibility." [1](https://www.techflowpost.com/en-US/article/30945)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 28 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
- Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling (2020), author 19 of 19: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14701
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), author 2 of 10: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Building Anthropic: a conversation with the co-founders (2024)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2lIWXLLN4)

**Known for:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
- Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (2021)
- Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback (2022)
Sources: [1](https://www.alphaxiv.org/@sam-mccandlish)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/sam-mccandlish/)

### Tom Brown

Co-founders · Chief Compute Officer at Anthropic · joined 2021

A startup engineer who taught himself AI research and went on to lead the engineering of GPT-3.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/tom-brown

**At Anthropic:**
- Current: Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer
- Jan 2021: Co-founder
Sources: [1](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Dec 2018 – Dec 2020: OpenAI, Research Engineering Lead, GPT-3
- Aug 2017 – Nov 2018: Google DeepMind, Member of Technical Staff
- May 2016 – May 2017: OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff
- 2012–2015: Grouper, Co-Founder & CTO
- Feb 2011 – Nov 2011: MoPub, Founding Engineer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown)

**Education:**
- MEng, Course 6 (Computer Science), Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005-2010
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Co-founded the startup Grouper and was a founding engineer at MoPub before AI. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown)
- Got a B-minus in linear algebra, then taught himself with a Coursera course, Kaggle and the book Linear Algebra Done Right. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-we-know-about-tom-brown-anthropic-white-house-2026-7)
- Led research engineering for GPT-3 at OpenAI. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown)
- Built MoPub's early server architecture and scaled its ad-serving API to 1.5 billion monthly impressions. [1](https://www.contextjamming.com/founder-files/tom-brown)
- Wrote the Grouper matching algorithms behind more than one million drinks across 25 cities before the startup shut down. [1](https://www.contextjamming.com/founder-files/tom-brown)
- Messaged Greg Brockman as soon as OpenAI was announced offering to help, and was eventually given a job on a StarCraft project. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-we-know-about-tom-brown-anthropic-white-house-2026-7)
- Wrote rl-teacher, open-source code for Deep RL from Human Preferences plus a web app for collecting human feedback. [1](https://github.com/nottombrown)
- Struck a 2026 deal to rent SpaceX compute, including the Colossus data center, for $1.25 billion a month. [1](https://www.contextjamming.com/founder-files/tom-brown)
- Gives this career advice: "Surround yourself with people you want to be like. You'll become more similar to them over time." [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-we-know-about-tom-brown-anthropic-white-house-2026-7)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017), author 3 of 6: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741
- Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences (2019), author 4 of 8: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 1 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
- Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling (2020), author 8 of 19: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14701
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), author 4 of 10: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Building Anthropic: a conversation with the co-founders (2024)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2lIWXLLN4)

**Known for:**
- Deep RL from Human Preferences (2017)
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3, 2020)
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Sources: [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-we-know-about-tom-brown-anthropic-white-house-2026-7)

**Forbes estimate:** $15.5B as of 2026-10-18 (an estimate, not a disclosed holding). [1](https://www.forbes.com/profile/tom-brown/)

## Leadership

### Mike Krieger

Leadership · Labs co-lead at Anthropic · joined 2024

Co-founded Instagram, then Artifact. Joined as Chief Product Officer in 2024 and now co-leads Labs, the experimental products team.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mike-krieger

**At Anthropic:**
- Jan 2026 – present: Member of Technical Staff, co-lead of Labs
- May 2024 – Jan 2026: Chief Product Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/861475/anthropic-ai-c-suite-internal-incubator-labs-team-mike-krieger)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jun 2021 – May 2024: Artifact, Co-founder & CTO
- Jun 2010 – Oct 2018: Instagram, Co-founder & CTO
- Jan 2009 – May 2010: Meebo, User Experience Designer & Engineer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)

**Education:**
- MS, Symbolic Systems - Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University, 2008
- BS, Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science), Stanford University, 2008
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied symbolic systems at Stanford and was a Mayfield Fellow. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)
- Joined Figma's board in July 2025. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)
- Moved from Brazil to California in 2004 to study at Stanford. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)
- Worked as a user experience designer and engineer at Meebo, after a program manager internship at Microsoft. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger)
- Grew Instagram's engineering team to more than 450 people. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/mike-krieger-joins-anthropic)
- Still follows two lessons from Instagram's first week in 2010: collect metrics before something breaks, and build runtime controls like feature flags. [1](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- Ported a couple-hundred-thousand-line Python project to TypeScript over one weekend, with Claude checking the code. [1](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- Resigned from Figma's board in April 2026, amid reports that Anthropic would offer a competing product. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [AI Engineer talk "How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs" (2026)](https://ai.engineer/talks/qqrk7CtkuIw-anthropic-builds-lessons-from-labs)
- [Every's AI & I podcast on how Anthropic uses Claude Fable 5 (2026)](https://every.to/podcast/transcript-how-anthropic-uses-claude-fable-5-with-mike-krieger)
- [Sources podcast interview on AI and health and the future of Claude (2026)](https://sources.news/p/anthropic-mike-krieger-interview-future-claude-ai)

**Known for:**
- Instagram (co-founded 2010)
- Rt.live (2020)
- Artifact (2023)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Krieger)

### Ami Vora

Leadership · Chief Product Officer at Anthropic · joined 2025

Started at Microsoft building developer tools, launched Facebook's developer platform and ran product and design at WhatsApp.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ami-vora

**At Anthropic:**
- 2026 – present: Chief Product Officer
- Dec 2025: Head of Product
Sources: [1](https://observer.com/2026/04/anthropic-top-executives-after-labs-launch/)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2022–2024: Faire, CPO
- 2018–2022: WhatsApp, VP, Product and Design
- 2013: Instagram, Director, Instagram
- 2007–2022: Facebook, Temp → VP Product
- 2003–2006: Microsoft, PM, Visual Studio & .NET
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)

**Education:**
- BA in Computer Science, Harvard University
Sources: [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Helped scale Instagram while at Meta. [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)
- Sits on Datadog's board. [1](https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-appoints-ami-vora-its-board-directors)
- Started at Facebook as a temp and rose to VP of Product over about 15 years at the company. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Was roughly employee 150 at Facebook, 33 at Instagram and 275 at WhatsApp. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Built Instagram's first ads system and, as head of product for Facebook Ads, doubled its revenue to $55 billion a year. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amvora)
- Writes The Hard Parts of Growth, a free newsletter she set out to make "the career guide I never had." [1](https://amivora.substack.com/p/the-full-catalogue)
- Opened Code with Claude 2026, reporting that Claude API volume was up nearly 17x year over year. [1](https://www.daniellevantini.com/blog/anthropic-code-with-claude-2026-opening-keynote)
- Said: "Everyone is more tired than we think. Nobody wants to learn a new thing." [1](https://creatoreconomy.so/p/7-counterintuitive-lessons-from-whatsapp-head-of-product-ami-vora)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Code with Claude 2026 opening keynote](https://www.daniellevantini.com/blog/anthropic-code-with-claude-2026-opening-keynote)
- [Lenny and Friends Summit panel with Mike Krieger on why Claude can't be your PM yet (2026)](https://dealroom.co/news/talk-sEXdyK6woKU-why-claude-cant-be-your-pm-yet-the-anthropic-view/)
- [Leah Tharin podcast on unconventional lessons (2024)](https://www.leahtharin.com/p/74-ami-vora-unconventional-lessons)

### Rahul Patil

Leadership · CTO at Anthropic · joined 2025

Was Stripe's CTO before joining in 2025. He now runs engineering across inference, product, infrastructure and security.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/rahul-patil

**At Anthropic:**
- Sep 2025 – present: CTO
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-patil-a0944836)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Aug 2024 – Sep 2025: Stripe, CTO
- Jan 2024 – Aug 2024: Stripe, Deputy CTO
- Jan 2023 – Jan 2024: Stripe, Head of Infrastructure and Global Operations
- Mar 2020 – Jan 2023: Stripe, Head of Infrastructure
- Jul 2015 – Mar 2020: Oracle, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Jan 2014 – Jul 2015: Amazon Web Services, Manager, Amazon Kinesis Firehose
- May 2004 – Dec 2013: Microsoft, Engineering and Management Roles
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-patil-a0944836)

**Education:**
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Washington, 2011-2013
- M.S, Computer Science, Arizona State University, 2003-2004
- B.E, Computer Science, PESIT, 1998-2002
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-patil-a0944836)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Named one of TIME's Executives of the Year in tech and data, 2026. [1](https://time.com/collection/executives-of-the-year-tech-data/2026/rahul-patil/)
- Studied computer science at PES in Bengaluru, then moved abroad in 2003 for an MS at Arizona State University. [1](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/namma-bluru-huduga-rahul-patil-named-ai-firm-anthropics-cto/articleshow/124296828.cms) [2](https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/meet-rahul-patil-the-new-cto-of-ai-firm-anthropic/articleshow/124291300.cms)
- Spent nearly nine years in engineering and management roles at Microsoft, then became a manager on Amazon Kinesis in 2014. [1](https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/meet-rahul-patil-the-new-cto-of-ai-firm-anthropic/articleshow/124291300.cms)
- Oversaw more than 30 products across compute, storage, security and monitoring at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. [1](https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/meet-rahul-patil-the-new-cto-of-ai-firm-anthropic/articleshow/124291300.cms)
- Started the My Little Bit foundation with one computer lab teaching girls Excel; it now funds STEM scholarships and job skills. [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6lDVhSk3Q8)
- Said in 2026: "We are happy to walk away from revenue if it means that we'll do the right thing and the safe thing." [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FTkrlAWXpk)
- Joined Gusto's board of directors in December 2025. [1](https://gusto.com/company-news/rahul-patil)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Interview on why Anthropic will walk away from revenue for safety (2026)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FTkrlAWXpk)
- [Talk on Claude's growth in India and support for Indic languages (2026)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6lDVhSk3Q8)

### Krishna Rao

Leadership · CFO at Anthropic · joined 2024

A Yale-trained lawyer who did private equity at Blackstone and corporate development at Airbnb before becoming CFO in 2024.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/krishna-rao

**At Anthropic:**
- May 2024 – present: Chief Financial Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-rao-193b613)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2023 – May 2024: Fanatics, Chief Financial Officer, Fanatics Commerce
- 2021–2023: Cedar, Chief Financial Officer
- 2018–2021: Airbnb, Global Head of Corporate & Business Development
- 2015–2018: Airbnb, Director, FP&A
- 2011–2015: Blackstone, Principal, Private Equity Group
- 2007–2008: Bain & Company, Senior Associate Consultant
- 2005–2007: Bain & Company, Associate Consultant
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-rao-193b613)

**Education:**
- J.D., Yale Law School
- A.B. in economics, Harvard College
Sources: [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/krishna-rao-joins-anthropic)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Started law school during the Great Recession. [1](https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/krishna-rao-11)
- Worked as a Bain & Company consultant in both San Francisco and New Delhi. [1](https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/krishna-rao-11)
- Sat on the boards of three private companies and observed on a public company board as a Blackstone principal. [1](https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/krishna-rao-11)
- Led or supported more than $10 billion in Airbnb financings, including its December 2020 IPO. [1](https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/krishna-rao-11)
- Ran both the finance and legal functions as Cedar's first CFO. [1](https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/krishna-rao-11)
- Said the $65 billion Series H would fund safety and interpretability research, more compute, and Anthropic's products and partnerships. [1](https://fortune.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-cfo-krishna-rao-steering-one-anticipated-lpo-ever/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Podcast interview with Patrick O'Shaughnessy on managing compute and scaling, his first podcast appearance (2026)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/krishna-rao-anthropics-cfo-on-managing-compute-scaling/id1154105909?i=1000767545842)

### Paul Smith

Leadership · Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic · joined 2025

Anthropic's first Chief Commercial Officer, after more than 30 years in sales, including at Microsoft, Salesforce and ServiceNow.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/paul-smith

**At Anthropic:**
- Aug 2025 – present: Chief Commercial Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjsmith)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2025 – Sep 2025: ServiceNow, Special Advisor
- Jan 2022 – Apr 2025: ServiceNow, President, Global Customer and Field Operations
- Jan 2022 – Jan 2025: ServiceNow, Chief Commercial Officer
- Jul 2020 – Jan 2022: ServiceNow, President EMEA ServiceNow
- Feb 2019 – Jul 2020: Salesforce, EVP and UK GM
- Feb 2017 – Jul 2020: Salesforce, Executive Vice President, EMEA
- Mar 2012 – Feb 2017: Salesforce, SVP and GM, Marketing Cloud EMEA
- Jul 2010 – Mar 2012: Techlightenment, Managing Director
- Nov 2006 – Nov 2009: Umee, CEO
- Jul 2006 – Oct 2006: Microsoft, Head of Media and Entertainment, Western Europe
- Dec 2004 – Jul 2006: Microsoft, BBC Account Director
- Mar 2003 – Dec 2004: Microsoft, EMEA Business Development Manager
- Nov 2000 – Mar 2003: Yospace, Business Development Director
- Sep 1997 – Nov 2000: Morse Group, Account Director
- 1994–1997: Procter & Gamble, Territory Manager
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjsmith)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied geography and climate change at the University of Plymouth in the UK. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjsmith)
- Took a sales job at Procter & Gamble straight out of university. [1](https://medium.com/authority-magazine/driving-disruption-paul-smith-of-servicenow-on-the-innovative-approaches-they-are-taking-to-fbdfe1d57586)
- Scaled ServiceNow's business through more than $12 billion in revenue as president of worldwide field operations. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjsmith)
- Told CNBC that leaving ads out of Claude was a "conscious decision," since ads mean "optimizing for the wrong things." [1](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-vs-openai-ads-spending-criticism.html)
- Said Cowork's first weeks beat Claude Code's early adoption, noting only 2% to 5% of a large company's staff work in engineering. [1](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/anthropic-executive-sees-cowork-agent-as-bigger-than-claude-code)
- Joined Humana's board of directors in July 2026. [1](https://humana.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/humana-elects-paul-smith-and-frederick-crawford-board-directors)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [CNBC interview: "Our attention is not split" (2026)](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/02/11/anthropic-cco-our-attention-is-not-split.html)

### Sasha de Marigny

Leadership · Chief Brand and Communications Officer at Anthropic · joined 2023

Was an actress and writer before leading brand communications at Stripe and Thrive Capital. She was Anthropic's first communications hire.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sasha-de-marigny

**At Anthropic:**
- Nov 2025 – present: Chief Brand and Communications Officer
- Aug 2023 – Nov 2025: Head of Brand and Communications
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashademarigny)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Dec 2022 – Jul 2023: Thrive Capital, VP, Brand and Communications
- Sep 2015 – Oct 2022: Stripe, Head of Brand Communications
- Apr 2013 – Aug 2015: EY, Corporate Communications Manager and EY Entrepreneur of the Year Lead
- Apr 2011 – Apr 2013: The Undergraduate Awards, Brand and Communications Manager
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashademarigny)

**Education:**
- Bachelor of Arts, Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Sources: [1](https://www.theofficialboard.com/biography/sasha-de-marigny-238e4)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Co-built Stripe Press, Stripe's book imprint. [1](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/anthropic-sasha-de-marigny-chief-communications-officer) [2](https://adage.com/events-awards/leading-women/aa-sasha-de-marigny-anthropic/)
- Built a team of about 200 people across communications, editorial, social and brand. [1](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/anthropic-sasha-de-marigny-chief-communications-officer) [2](https://adage.com/events-awards/leading-women/aa-sasha-de-marigny-anthropic/) [3](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership)
- Named one of Ad Age's Leading Women in 2026. [1](https://adage.com/events-awards/leading-women/aa-sasha-de-marigny-anthropic/)
- Studied culture, communication and media at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and trained at Dublin's Gaiety School of Acting. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashademarigny)
- Worked in communications at EY and The Undergraduate Awards in Ireland before moving to Stripe. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashademarigny)
- Became Anthropic's first-ever chief communications officer in November 2025, reporting to Daniela Amodei. [1](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/anthropic-sasha-de-marigny-chief-communications-officer)
- Ranked third on PRWeek's 2026 Power List for building Anthropic's reputation through a run of Claude launches. [1](https://www.prweek.com/article/1965597/prweek-power-list-2026-3-sasha-de-marigny-anthropic)
- Describes her mission as radical transparency about AI research, demystifying the technology and raising awareness of its risks. [1](https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/04/23/culture-ai-anthropic-sasha-de-marigny-and-andrew-stirk/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Axios Communicators NYC on-stage interview with Eleanor Hawkins (2025)](https://axioscommunicatorsnyc2025.splashthat.com/)

**Known for:**
- Co-built Stripe Press
- Built Anthropic’s brand from the ground up
Sources: [1](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/anthropic-sasha-de-marigny-chief-communications-officer) [2](https://adage.com/events-awards/leading-women/aa-sasha-de-marigny-anthropic/)

### Brian Israel

Leadership · Chief Legal Officer at Anthropic · joined 2022

Spent a decade in public service, including as a NASA lawyer for international law, before becoming one of Anthropic's earliest executives.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/brian-israel

> “Sometimes the right answer for Anthropic would be things that 99% of tech companies wouldn't even consider. You have to be appropriately open to weirdness—not weirdness for the sake of weirdness, but tied to what we're trying to achieve in the world.” [1](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vH3urMktVWrz0bivoQjEK) [2](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/anthropic-taps-new-general-counsel-amid-ai-firms-funding-push) [3](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership)

**At Anthropic:**
- Jul 2025 – present: Chief Legal Officer
- Oct 2022 – Jul 2025: General Counsel
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-israel-36b37118)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Dec 2021 – Dec 2022: Domaine Labs, Founder
- Sep 2020 – Sep 2022: NASA, Associate General Counsel for International Law
- Jan 2019 – Apr 2022: University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer
- Oct 2018 – May 2020: ConsenSys, Co-Founder, ConsenSys Space
- May 2017 – Oct 2018: Planetary Resources, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
- Jan 2017 – May 2017: U.S. Department of State, Attorney-Adviser for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
- Oct 2011 – Jan 2017: U.S. Department of State, Attorney-Adviser for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
- Aug 2010 – Jan 2014: George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Adjunct Professor
- Oct 2009 – Oct 2011: U.S. Department of State, Attorney-Adviser for International Claims and Investment Disputes
- Aug 2005 – Jul 2006: AAA Travel, Product Strategy Analyst
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-israel-36b37118)

**Education:**
- BA, University of California, San Diego
- JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Sources: [1](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Headed the US delegation to the UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee from 2012 to 2016. [1](https://exploremars.org/h2m-speaker-brian-israel/)
- Grew Anthropic's legal team from one person to 27 in two years. [1](https://sites.libsyn.com/412187/58-open-to-weirdness-brian-israel-on-leading-legal-at-anthropic)
- Joined ConsenSys Space in October 2018, when ConsenSys acquired Planetary Resources. [1](https://www.geekwire.com/2020/buying-planetary-resources-consensys-gives-away-science-asteroids-will-sell-rest/)
- Taught space law at Berkeley Law from 2019 to 2022, after teaching as an adjunct at George Mason's law school. [1](https://executive.law.berkeley.edu/boosts/brian-israel-gc-of-anthropic/)
- Says the right answer for Anthropic is sometimes something "99% of tech companies wouldn't even consider." [1](https://sites.libsyn.com/412187/58-open-to-weirdness-brian-israel-on-leading-legal-at-anthropic)
- During OpenAI's November 2023 board crisis, fielded investor questions on whether it could happen at Anthropic. His answer: it can't happen to us. [1](https://time.com/6983420/anthropic-structure-openai-incentives/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- ["Open to weirdness" podcast episode on leading legal at Anthropic (2024)](https://sites.libsyn.com/412187/58-open-to-weirdness-brian-israel-on-leading-legal-at-anthropic)
- [Berkeley Law conversation on the frontiers of AI, law and technology (2023)](https://executive.law.berkeley.edu/boosts/brian-israel-gc-of-anthropic/)
- [Humans to Mars Summit speaker (2022)](https://exploremars.org/h2m-speaker-brian-israel/)

### Hannah Pritchett

Leadership · Chief People Officer at Anthropic · joined 2024

Trained as a linguist, spent seven years at Stripe across risk, payments operations and talent, and now leads Anthropic's people team.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/hannah-pritchett

**At Anthropic:**
- Jan 2024 – present: Chief People Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-pritchett-261b0a74)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2022 – Jan 2024: Binti, VP of People
- Jun 2015 – May 2022: Stripe, Scaling Operations
- Feb 2010 – May 2015: Facebook, Trust & Safety
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-pritchett-261b0a74)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Worked on trust and safety at Facebook. [1](https://register.transform.us/2025/speaker/1375175/hannah-pritchett) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Was VP of People at Binti and stepped in as its interim head of engineering. [1](https://register.transform.us/2025/speaker/1375175/hannah-pritchett) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Built a dashboard prototype herself over a weekend with Claude Code after months of trying to describe it to her team. [1](https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissadaimler/2026/03/15/ai-wont-fix-what-you-havent-clarified-become-a-builder-leader/) [2](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Won an $11,000 Fulbright grant in 2006 as a BYU linguistics senior to study Bahasa Indonesian and Javanese in Semarang, Indonesia. [1](https://universe.byu.edu/2006/07/05/student-receives-fulbright-grant/)
- Finished the Fulbright application in a month instead of the usual five to six. [1](https://universe.byu.edu/2006/07/05/student-receives-fulbright-grant/)
- At Facebook, worked on teams covering compromised accounts, child safety, content policy and payments fraud. [1](https://s1.goeshow.com/mrc/annual/2018/Vegas18Agenda.cfm?&speakerCRMKey=56E43AE8-6B87-4968-8DE7-CA00D7896DAD)
- Argues the field should have been called "human capital," and that employees are "R&D money, not operating expenses money." [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWIZlbPTCUk)
- Runs a retro on every project, a habit borrowed from strength training, where a failed lift earns applause for pushing hard enough. [1](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- Says Anthropic designs its people system around intrinsic motivation, with flat titles, offers that are not negotiated and mission-first hiring. [1](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Below the Surface podcast with Joelle Emerson on how Anthropic hires and learns (2026)](https://surface.ai/podcast/hannah-pritchett-anthropic)
- [Total 180 interview: Does "Human Resources" frame it wrong (2026)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcelolebre_does-human-resources-frame-it-wrong-total-activity-7425108775746965504-bgZH)
- [Charter panel on moving from AI pilots to business impact (2026)](https://www.charterworks.com/managing-the-messy-middle-from-ai-pilots-to-business-impact-2/)

### Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Leadership · Chief Global Affairs Officer at Anthropic · joined 2026

A former California Supreme Court justice and president of the Carnegie Endowment, hired in 2026 as Anthropic's first chief global affairs officer.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mariano-florentino-cuellar

**At Anthropic:**
- Aug 2026 – present: Chief Global Affairs Officer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-florentino-tino-cuéllar-791ab2)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Oct 2021 – Jul 2026: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, President
- Jan 2015 – Nov 2021: Stanford Law School, Herman Phleger Visiting Professor
- Jan 2015 – Oct 2021: Supreme Court of California, Justice
- Aug 2012 – Jan 2015: Stanford Law School, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law
- Feb 2009 – Jul 2010: The White House, Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy
- Aug 2007 – Aug 2012: Stanford Law School, Professor and Deane Johnson Faculty Scholar
- Jul 2004 – Jan 2015: Stanford University, Director (and other positions), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Aug 2003 – Aug 2007: Stanford Law School, Associate Professor
- Aug 2001 – Aug 2003: Stanford Law School, Assistant Professor
- Jul 2000 – Aug 2001: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Law Clerk to Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-florentino-tino-cuéllar-791ab2)

**Education:**
- A.B., Government and Political Psychology, Harvard University, 1993
- J.D., Law, Yale Law School, 1997
- Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University, 2000
- M.A., Political Science, Stanford University, 1996
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Holds a Harvard AB, a Yale law degree and a Stanford PhD in political science. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)
- Co-led California's working group on frontier AI models with Fei-Fei Li. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)
- Served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Justice and Regulatory Policy in 2009 and 2010. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)
- Joined the California Supreme Court without ever having served as a judge, and earned a reputation there as a pragmatist. [1](https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/393491-former-justice-cuellar-joins-anthropic-as-global-affairs-chief)
- Began organizing classes on artificial intelligence at Stanford Law School nearly a decade before joining Anthropic. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/tino-cuellar)
- Was a trustee of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust from January 2026, stepping down to join the company. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/tino-cuellar)
- That working group's 2025 report helped inform California's SB 53, the first US law focused specifically on AI safety. [1](https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-names-first-chief-global-affairs-officer)
- Co-founded a nonprofit in law school that placed students as English teachers in underserved communities. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)

**Known for:**
- Government by Algorithm (ACUS, 2020; co-authored)
- Administrative Law: The American Public Law System (West, 2020, 2014; co-authored)
- Governing Security (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano-Florentino_Cu%C3%A9llar)

### Vitaly Gudanets

Leadership · CISO at Anthropic · joined 2025

Ran security at Netflix and spent more than a decade at Google before becoming Anthropic's chief information security officer.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/vitaly-gudanets

**At Anthropic:**
- Sep 2025 – present: CISO
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-gudanets-877377)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Nov 2021 – Jun 2025: Netflix, CISO
- Dec 2016 – Nov 2021: Google, VP, Security Engineering
- Apr 2009 – Dec 2016: Google, Sr. Director, Data Centers
- 2007–2009: Rainmaker Systems, CISO/CIO
- 2005–2007: SanDisk, Sr. Director, Global Infrastructure and Security Services
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Global Infrastructure Services
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Enterprise Architecture
- 1999–2005: VERITAS Software, Director, Global Network Services
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-gudanets-877377)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Joined Google in 2009 as senior director of data centers, overseeing the software that runs its facilities. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/20-google-execs-leading-cybersecurity-2021-5)
- Spent two years as chief information officer at software firm Rainmaker Systems before Google. [1](https://www.businessinsider.com/20-google-execs-leading-cybersecurity-2021-5)
- Took over from Jason Clinton, who stayed on as his deputy CISO. [1](https://www.thestack.technology/anthropic-new-ciso-claude-cyber-attack/)
- Says "most GRC programs today are very little G, very little R, and a very big C." [1](https://drata.com/blog/drataverse-2025-future-of-grc-vitaly-gudanets)
- Warns that nation-state actors are actively targeting AI companies to steal model weights. [1](https://guruchahal.substack.com/p/defenders-are-behind-anthropics-ciso)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Cyber 60 podcast: How Anthropic uses Claude for security (2025)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-anthropic-uses-claude-for-security-ciso-vitaly/id1847688770?i=1000740608588)
- [Cyber Confidential conversation with Joe Sullivan and Chenxi Wang on AI and security (2025)](https://rss.com/podcasts/cyber-confidential/2077576/)

### Eric Boyd

Leadership · Head of Infrastructure at Anthropic · joined 2026

Was president of Microsoft's AI platform before joining in April 2026.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/eric-boyd

**At Anthropic:**
- Apr 2026 – present: Head of Infrastructure
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Feb 2015 – Apr 2026: Microsoft, President AI Platform
- Sep 2009 – Feb 2015: Microsoft, GM BingAds Development
- Apr 2008 – Sep 2009: Mochi Media, VP Engineering
- Oct 2006 – Apr 2008: Yahoo!, VP of Platform Engineering
- Mar 2004 – Oct 2006: Yahoo!, Sr Director Engineering
- Dec 1998 – Mar 2004: Yahoo!, Director of Engineering
- 1995–1998: InterDimensions, Founder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Education:**
- BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as president of its AI platform. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Managed about 1,500 people at Microsoft. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Founded a company, InterDimensions, in 1995, the year before he graduated from MIT. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Spent 10 years at Yahoo, rising to vice president of platform engineering. [1](https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/04/07/anthropic-names-former-microsoft-azure-ai-executive-eric-boyd-as-infrastructure-chief.aspx)
- Joined Microsoft in September 2009 to run its Silicon Valley ads engineering team, leaving Mochi Media shortly after its acquisition. [1](https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/ex-yahoo-to-run-microsoft-silicon-valley-ads-team-amid-exodus-from-mochi-media/)
- Helped plan the Microsoft compute clusters that OpenAI used to train and run its models. [1](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsofts-eric-boyd-joins-anthropic-as-head-of-infrastructure/)
- Led the Azure engineering that hosted Anthropic's models, so he knew the company's technical requirements before joining. [1](https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/04/07/anthropic-names-former-microsoft-azure-ai-executive-eric-boyd-as-infrastructure-chief.aspx)
- Announced Scion, Anthropic's in-house version control system, which scaled from about 2,500 merges a day in May 2026 to over 30,000 in September. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emboyd_back-in-april-in-my-second-week-at-anthropic-activity-7515818492495990784-MBfY?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAG_jSdUBlSgbTCSn7MjUb10f6y6xnbXcV3c)
- Joined the board of AI hiring company HireVue in 2018. [1](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hirevue-appoints-microsoft-ai-executive-eric-boyd-to-board-of-directors-300725516.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [MIT Sloan Me, Myself, and AI podcast on moving AI out of the lab and into products (2023)](https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/out-of-the-lab-and-into-a-product-microsofts-eric-boyd/)
- [AMD Advancing AI keynote (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxTby5fG1E)
- [MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital speaker (2023)](https://event.technologyreview.com/emtech-digital-2023/speaker/678751/eric-boyd)

### Chris Ciauri

Leadership · Managing Director, International at Anthropic · joined 2025

Led Google Cloud in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and ran Salesforce's EMEA business for a decade.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-ciauri

**At Anthropic:**
- Sep 2025 – present: Managing Director of International
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciauri)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jun 2023 – Jun 2025: Unily, Chief Executive Officer
- 2019–2021: Google, President of EMEA Google Cloud
- 2009–2019: Salesforce, Executive Vice President & General Manager, EMEA
- 2007–2009: HydroPoint Data Systems, Vice President of Sales
- 2004–2007: Valen Analytics (an Insurity company), Vice President of Sales & Marketing
- 2000–2003: Epiphany, Vice President & General Manager, Latam & APAC
- 1995–1999: PeopleSoft, Sales Director Latin America & Caribbean
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciauri)

**Education:**
- Masters of International Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management
- Bachelor of Science, Finance, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
- Mastered Programme, Executive Coaching, Meyler Campbell, 2021-2022
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciauri)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Helped grow Salesforce's EMEA revenue from under $200 million to over $3 billion during a decade running the region. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-expands-global-leadership-in-enterprise-ai-naming-chris-ciauri-as-managing-director-of)
- Started out selling in Latin America, as PeopleSoft's sales director for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1995 to 1999. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciauri)
- Holds a Master of International Management from Thunderbird and completed Meyler Campbell's executive coaching program. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciauri)
- Opened Anthropic's Milan office in 2026, its sixth in Europe, and said London would grow to 800 employees. [1](https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-boost-hiring-europe-after-opening-milan-office-2026-05-28/)
- Pitches safety as a selling point in Europe: "we have built a reputation around being vocal around safety, around ethical AI." [1](https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-boost-hiring-europe-after-opening-milan-office-2026-05-28/)
- Opened the Seoul office in 2026, calling Korea "one of our fastest growing markets in the world because of the technical and developer base." [1](https://voi.id/en/technology/580592)

### Kate Jensen

Leadership · Head of Americas at Anthropic · joined 2023

A biomedical engineer who built sales teams at Stripe for seven years before joining in 2023.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kate-jensen

**At Anthropic:**
- Aug 2025 – present: Head of Americas
- Aug 2023 – Aug 2025: Head of Sales + Partnerships
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2019 – Aug 2023: Stripe, Head of Platform Sales
- Feb 2017 – Jul 2019: Stripe, Head of Outbound Sales
- 2016 – Sep 2019: Stripe, Head of Growth & Mid-Market Sales
- Feb 2014 – Sep 2014: Google for Work, Team Lead - Assist (SMB Online Sales)
- Aug 2012 – Feb 2014: Google for Work, Sales Operations & Strategy
- Jul 2010 – Sep 2012: Peterstow Aquapower, Sales & Product Development
- Aug 2009 – Jul 2010: Oakham School, Graduate Science Fellow
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Education:**
- BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied biomedical engineering at Yale, then business at Stanford. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Worked at a water-hydraulic mining equipment startup in southern Africa and the UK. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Led a small-business online sales team at Google for Work before her MBA. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Manages Anthropic's major cloud partnerships with Amazon and Google. [1](https://live.skift.com/speaker/kate-jensen/)
- Said in 2026: "2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature." [1](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-launches-push-enterprise-agents-144555848.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [ZoomInfo Labs Podcast, season 1 episode 1 (2024)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthropic-head-of-sales-kate-jensen/id1757547464?i=1000662378550)
- [Connected Stack keynote with Mike Montano: Real ROI, how the agentic enterprise measures what matters (2026)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/connected-stack-enterprise-ai-summit-announces-speaker-lineup-including-keynote-by-anthropic-302872932.html)
- [Skift Global Forum East talk on Anthropic's enterprise-first approach (2025)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/skift_dont-tell-anthropics-kate-jensen-that-her-activity-7390977307273871360-MZ_J)

### Jason Clinton

Leadership · Deputy CISO at Anthropic · joined 2023

Spent about 12 years at Google securing Chrome infrastructure, ChromeOS and Android Pay.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jason-clinton

**At Anthropic:**
- Current: Deputy CISO
- Apr 2023: Chief Information Security Officer, Anthropic's first
Sources: [1](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/speaker/jason-clinton) [2](https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/jason-clinton)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- nearly 12 years: Google, Led Chrome infrastructure security; earlier worked on ChromeOS and Android Pay
Sources: [1](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/speaker/jason-clinton)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Wrote Ruby Phrasebook and contributed to the GNOME project. [1](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/speaker/jason-clinton) [2](https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/jason-clinton)
- Was Anthropic's first CISO and now serves as its deputy CISO. [1](https://www.clarin.com/us-news/the-next-18-to-24-months-could-be-the-most-intense-of-our-careers-an-anthropic-security-executives-warning-about-ai_0_EkEr0IDVhz.html) [2](https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/jason-clinton)
- Worked early in his career on digital coupons, Beowulf cluster computing and secure thin clients. [1](https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/jason-clinton)
- Predicted in April 2025 that AI virtual employees, with their own memories and company logins, would arrive within a year. [1](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ai-agents-prediction)
- Told DEF CON in 2026 that an open-weights model with Mythos-level offensive cyber capabilities was "approximately three to six months away." [1](https://www.clarin.com/us-news/the-next-18-to-24-months-could-be-the-most-intense-of-our-careers-an-anthropic-security-executives-warning-about-ai_0_EkEr0IDVhz.html)
- Warned that security teams face "roughly 18 to 24 months of pain" as AI shifts how cybersecurity operates. [1](https://www.clarin.com/us-news/the-next-18-to-24-months-could-be-the-most-intense-of-our-careers-an-anthropic-security-executives-warning-about-ai_0_EkEr0IDVhz.html)
- Calls Anthropic's equity pledge program "the principal reason that I left Google for Anthropic." [1](https://x.com/JasonDClinton/status/2111944917840994774)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [SafeBreach podcast: Anthropic's CISO guide to agentic AI (2026)](https://www.safebreach.com/podcast/anthropic-ciso-guide-agentic-ai-insider-threat/)
- [Confidential Computing on the Scaling Laws Curve (2026)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bpL2KZXF2E)
- [Databricks Data + AI Summit: The New CISO Mandate (2026)](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/speaker/jason-clinton)

**Known for:**
- Ruby Phrasebook (author)
- Lessons from Enterprise GenAI Adoption Journeys (co-author)
Sources: [1](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/speaker/jason-clinton)

### Jeff Bleich

Leadership · International Special Envoy at Anthropic · joined 2025

A former United States ambassador to Australia and Cruise's chief legal officer. He was Anthropic's general counsel before becoming its international envoy.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jeff-bleich

**At Anthropic:**
- Aug 2026 – present: Special Envoy
- Jul 2025 – Aug 2026: General Counsel
Sources: [1](https://www.folger.edu/bio/jeff-bleich/) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Mar 2024 – Jul 2025: Stanford University, Visiting Scholar
- May 2020 – Dec 2023: Cruise, Chief Legal and Policy Officer
- Apr 2019 – May 2020: U.S. District Courts, Special Master
- Mar 2016 – Mar 2019: Dentons, Group CEO and Partner
- Jan 2014 – Feb 2016: Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Partner
- Nov 2009 – Sep 2013: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Ambassador to Australia
- Mar 2009 – Oct 2009: The White House, Special Counsel to the President
- Nov 1992 – Nov 2009: Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Partner
- Jul 1990 – Aug 1991: The Supreme Court of the United States, Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354)

**Education:**
- B.A., Political Science, Amherst College, 1983
- MPP, Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1986
- JD, Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, 1989
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Directed the White House Commission on Youth Violence for President Clinton in 1998. [1](https://www.folger.edu/bio/jeff-bleich/)
- Received the Sue Cobb Medal, the State Department's top award for a non-career ambassador. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354)
- Chaired PG&E's board in 2019 and 2020. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354)
- Clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the US Supreme Court from 1990 to 1991. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bleich)
- Worked at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague from 1991 to 1992. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bleich)
- Ran in the 2018 primary for lieutenant governor of California. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bleich)
- Chairs a center on democracy and disruptive technologies at Flinders University in Australia that bears his name. [1](https://www.folger.edu/bio/jeff-bleich/)
- Says AI progress will "move at the speed of trust." [1](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/operating-at-the-speed-of-trust-01074222)
- Told Australia's parliament in 2026 that Anthropic was finalizing a deal for the national AI Safety Institute to run independent evaluations of its models. [1](https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/anthropic-frontier-models-up-australian-ai-safety-institute/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Podcast interview on AI safety and democracy (2026)](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/anthropics-jeff-bleich-on-ai-safety-and-democracy/id1740862922?i=1000793940715)
- [Stanford Law best practices conference, general counsel roundtable (2026)](https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/bestpractices2026/speakers/hon-jeffrey-bleich/)

## Research and product

### Nick Joseph

Research and product · Head of Pre-training at Anthropic · joined 2021

Joined OpenAI for its safety team, then followed its safety leads out eight months later. He has been at Anthropic since January 2021.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nick-joseph

> “after, like, eight months, basically everyone I worked with—all the safety leads—left, which, uh, yeah, invited me to go to Anthropic. And that was sort of the reason I joined OpenAI in the first place—because I cared about AI safety and wanted to work with them. So then I went with them to join Anthropic pretty much right when it started.” [1](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Mw-how-to-train-an-llm-with-anthropic-s-head-of-pretraining)

**At Anthropic:**
- Current: Head of Pre-training
- Head of Training
- Jan 2021: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Mw-how-to-train-an-llm-with-anthropic-s-head-of-pretraining) [2](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/197-nick-joseph-on-whether-anthropics-ai-safety-policy/id1245002988)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2020 – Jan 2021: OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff
- Dec 2017 – May 2020: Vicarious AI, Research Engineer
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/njoseph2)

**Education:**
- Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Harvard University, 2017
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/njoseph2)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Interned at GiveWell and first planned a career fighting poverty. [1](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Mw-how-to-train-an-llm-with-anthropic-s-head-of-pretraining)
- First job: training computer-vision models for robots at Vicarious. [1](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Mw-how-to-train-an-llm-with-anthropic-s-head-of-pretraining)
- Was one of the 11 people who left OpenAI to launch Anthropic. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/nick-joseph-anthropic-safety-approach-responsible-scaling/)
- Studied computer science at Harvard. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/njoseph2)
- Worked on scaling laws for code generation on OpenAI's foresight team. [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscouq3lo0s)
- Argues the bottlenecks in AI progress are people and time, not data or compute. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/nick-joseph-anthropic-safety-approach-responsible-scaling/)
- Says Anthropic's responsible scaling policy avoids costly precautions before they are needed and aligns commercial incentives with safety. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/nick-joseph-anthropic-safety-approach-responsible-scaling/)
- Welcomed Andrej Karpathy to his pretraining team in May 2026 to build a group using Claude to accelerate pretraining research. [1](https://x.com/nickevanjoseph/status/2056760504949842219)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [80,000 Hours podcast on Anthropic's safety approach and responsible scaling (2024)](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/nick-joseph-anthropic-safety-approach-responsible-scaling/)
- [Y Combinator: How to train an LLM with Anthropic's head of pretraining (2025)](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Mw-how-to-train-an-llm-with-anthropic-s-head-of-pretraining)
- [PyTorch talk: Why and how of scaling large language models (2022)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscouq3lo0s)

### Andrej Karpathy

Research and product · Pretraining research at Anthropic · joined 2026

An OpenAI founding member and Tesla's former head of AI. He joined Anthropic in May 2026 to get back to research.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/andrej-karpathy

> “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” [1](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead.html)

**At Anthropic:**
- May 2026 – present: Pretraining research team lead
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2024–2026: Eureka Labs, Founder
- 2023–2024: OpenAI, Returned for a second stint
- 2017–2022: Tesla, Director, then Senior Director of AI
- 2015–2017: OpenAI, Research scientist, founding member
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy)

**Education:**
- BSc, Computer Science and Physics, University of Toronto, 2009
- MSc, Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2011
- PhD, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2016
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Became known on YouTube first, for Rubik's cube tutorials on his channel badmephisto. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy)
- Designed and taught CS 231n, Stanford's first deep learning class, which grew from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017. [1](https://karpathy.ai/)
- Did his PhD under Fei-Fei Li at the Stanford Vision Lab. [1](https://karpathy.ai/)
- First got into deep learning at the University of Toronto, attending Geoff Hinton's class and reading groups. [1](https://karpathy.ai/)
- At Tesla, his team handled in-house data labeling, neural network training and deployment on Tesla's custom inference chip. [1](https://karpathy.ai/)
- The model cited in his original February 2025 vibe coding tweet was Anthropic's. [1](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/who-is-andrej-karpathy-vibe-coding-anthropic-openai-rubiks-cube/)
- In March 2026, let an AI agent tune training code unsupervised for two days. Its 700 experiments cut a larger model's training time by 11%. [1](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/who-is-andrej-karpathy-vibe-coding-anthropic-openai-rubiks-cube/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Sequoia Ascent fireside chat (2026)](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2049903821095354523)

**Known for:**
- CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
- Connecting Images and Natural Language (2016)
- Eureka Labs / LLM101n
- "Zero to Hero" series
- Coined "vibe coding" (2025)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy)

### Jan Leike

Research and product · Alignment Science team lead at Anthropic · joined 2024

Co-led OpenAI's superalignment team and resigned publicly in 2024. He leads alignment science at Anthropic.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jan-leike

> “Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products” [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Leike)

**At Anthropic:**
- May 2024 – present: Alignment Science team lead
Sources: [1](https://jan.leike.name/)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2021–2024: OpenAI, Head of Alignment; co-led the Superalignment team
- before 2021: DeepMind, Alignment researcher
- Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Postdoctoral fellowship, six months
Sources: [1](https://jan.leike.name/)

**Education:**
- BS, University of Freiburg
- MS, computer science, University of Freiburg
- PhD, machine learning, Australian National University
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Leike)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Did a PhD at the Australian National University on AIXI, a mathematical model of general intelligence. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Leike)
- Named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2023 and 2024. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Leike)
- Worked on InstructGPT, ChatGPT and the alignment of GPT-4 at OpenAI, and wrote its approach to alignment research. [1](https://jan.leike.name/)
- Superalignment, which he co-led with Ilya Sutskever, aimed to align superintelligence within four years using 20% of OpenAI's compute. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/jan-leike-superalignment/)
- Joined Anthropic on May 28, 2024, two weeks after resigning from OpenAI. [1](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/openai-safety-leader-jan-leike-joins-amazon-backed-anthropic.html)
- Announced in April 2026 that Claude made fully autonomous progress on scalable oversight research, outperforming human researchers for $18,000 in compute. [1](https://x.com/janleike/status/2044139528596910584)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017), author 2 of 6: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741

**Interviews and talks:**
- [80,000 Hours podcast #159 on superalignment (2023)](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/jan-leike-superalignment/)

**Known for:**
- Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017)
- Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction (2018)
- Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (2022)
- Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision (2024)
- LLM Critics Help Catch LLM Bugs (2024)
Sources: [1](https://jan.leike.name/)

### Holden Karnofsky

Research and product · Safety planning at Anthropic · joined 2025

Co-founded GiveWell and ran Open Philanthropy. He joined in 2025 to work on the Responsible Scaling Policy.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/holden-karnofsky

**At Anthropic:**
- Jan 2025 – present: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/holden-karnofsky-75970b7)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Apr 2024 – Jan 2025: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Visiting Scholar
- Jul 2023 – Apr 2024: Open Philanthropy, Director of AI Strategy
- Jun 2021 – Jul 2023: Open Philanthropy, Co-CEO
- Jun 2017 – Jun 2021: Open Philanthropy, Chief Executive Officer
- Aug 2014 – Jun 2017: Open Philanthropy, Project Lead
- Jun 2007 – Jun 2017: GiveWell, Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director
- 2004–2007: Bridgewater Associates, Investment Associate
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/holden-karnofsky-75970b7)

**Education:**
- BA, social studies, Harvard University, 2003
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied social studies at Harvard, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Once shared an apartment with Dario Amodei. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Worked at Bridgewater Associates after college, where he and Elie Hassenfeld started a charity club in 2006 to research where to give. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Quit Bridgewater in 2007 to run GiveWell full time, funded by donations from colleagues. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Annual donations to GiveWell-recommended charities grew from $1.6 million in 2010 to $110 million in 2015. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Sat on OpenAI's board of directors from 2017 to 2021. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karnofsky)
- Worked with METR in 2023 to develop the idea of responsible scaling policies, then led Anthropic's RSP v3.0 rewrite. [1](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DGZNAGL2FNJfftwgE/responsible-scaling-policy-v3-1)
- Named his blog Cold Takes because each post is written at least a month before it is published. [1](https://www.cold-takes.com/about/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [80,000 Hours podcast #226 on concrete AI safety at frontier AI companies (2025)](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/holden-karnofsky-concrete-ai-safety-frontier-ai-companies/)

**Known for:**
- Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI, 2012)
Sources: [1](https://www.alignmentforum.org/w/holden-karnofsky)

### Amanda Askell

Research and product · Personality alignment lead at Anthropic · joined 2021

A philosopher whose NYU doctorate was on infinite ethics. She leads the team that shapes Claude's character.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/amanda-askell

**At Anthropic:**
- Mar 2021 – present: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-askell)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Nov 2018 – Feb 2021: OpenAI, Research Scientist (Policy)
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-askell)

**Education:**
- MA (Hons), Philosophy, University of Dundee, 2009
- BPhil, Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2011
- PhD, Philosophy, New York University, 2018
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Askell)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Started at art school, studying fine art and philosophy, before Oxford and an NYU PhD. [1](https://askell.io/) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Askell)
- Pledged to give at least 10% of her lifetime income to charity. [1](https://askell.io/)
- Named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2024. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Askell)
- Knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy. [1](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883)
- At OpenAI, worked on AI safety via debate and on human baselines for AI performance. [1](https://askell.io/)
- Is the primary author of Claude's Constitution, a document of more than 20,000 words. [1](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--claude's-constitution--with-amanda-askell)
- Shapes Claude's personality with prompts that can run longer than 100 pages. [1](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883)
- Works on character training, which became part of Anthropic's alignment finetuning starting with Claude 3. [1](https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character)
- Believes AI models "will inevitably form senses of self." [1](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883)

**Research papers before Anthropic:**
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), author 10 of 31: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Lawfare Scaling Laws podcast on Claude's Constitution (2026)](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--claude's-constitution--with-amanda-askell)
- [Newcomer Pod on AI consciousness, Claude and Silicon Valley's biggest fear (2026)](https://podcast.newcomer.co/episode/amanda-askell-on-ai-consciousness-claude-amp-silicon-valleys-biggest-fear)
- [Hard Fork: Can you teach an AI model to be good? (2026)](https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000010670974/can-you-teach-an-ai-model-to-be-good.html)

**Known for:**
- Constitutional AI framework
- Pareto Principles in Infinite Ethics (2018)
- GPT-3 paper (2020)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Askell)

### Boris Cherny

Research and product · Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic · joined 2024

Created Claude Code. Before that he was a principal engineer at Meta and wrote O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/boris-cherny

**At Anthropic:**
- Sep 2024 – present: Head of Applications, Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Nov 2017 – Aug 2024: Meta, Principal Software Engineer
- Jan 2015 – Apr 2017: Coatue Management, Architect, Frontend
- Oct 2014 – Dec 2014: Turn, Lead Software Engineer
- Jan 2014 – Sep 2014: Turn, Senior Software Engineer
- Jun 2012 – Jun 2013: AgileMD, Software Engineer, Frontend
- Nov 2011 – Jun 2012: ForwardMetrics, Software Engineer
- Sep 2009 – Oct 2011: C4, Director of Web and Product Development
- Jan 2005 – Nov 2011: BC Design, CEO
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny)

**Education:**
- Economics, UC San Diego, 2009-2011
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Ran his first startup at 18 and studied economics at UC San Diego. [1](https://www.developing.dev/p/boris-cherny-creator-of-claude-code) [2](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny)
- Uninstalled his code editor after a month of not opening it. [1](https://www.developing.dev/p/boris-cherny-creator-of-claude-code)
- Said of joining Anthropic: "The model was ready and no one on the product side was realizing it." [1](https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-conversation-with-boris-cherny-creator-of-claude-code/)
- Early on, Claude Code wrote 10 to 20% of his code. Now over 90% of the Claude Code team's code is written with it. [1](https://workos.com/blog/boris-cherny-claude-code-acquired-interview-takeaways)
- No longer prompts Claude directly. He writes loops that prompt Claude and work out what to build next. [1](https://workos.com/blog/boris-cherny-claude-code-acquired-interview-takeaways)
- Runs five Claude Code sessions at once in separate git checkouts of the same repo, plus five to ten more on the web. [1](https://howborisusesclaudecode.com/)
- Argues prompt engineering matters less than giving Claude a task that seems slightly too hard, plus a way to verify its own work. [1](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/head-of-anthropics-claude-code-says-prompt-engineering-not-that-important/584286/)
- Published a team note called "I am often wrong" describing a six-step problem-solving method, and calls being wrong his favorite thing. [1](https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Computer History Museum conversation with curator David C. Brock (2026)](https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-conversation-with-boris-cherny-creator-of-claude-code/)
- [The Pragmatic Engineer on building Claude Code (2026)](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/building-claude-code-with-boris-cherny)

**Known for:**
- Claude Code (2024)
- Programming TypeScript (O'Reilly)
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny)

### Evan Hubinger

Research and product · Alignment Science org lead at Anthropic · joined 2023

Co-wrote the 2019 paper on risks from learned optimization the year he graduated. He now leads Anthropic's alignment science group.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/evan-hubinger

**At Anthropic:**
- 2026 – present: Leads the Alignment Science org
- 2024–2025: Led the Alignment Stress-Testing team
- 2023: Alignment Science researcher
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehubinger)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Nov 2019 – Jan 2023: Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Research Fellow
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehubinger)

**Education:**
- Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College, 2019
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehubinger)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Co-wrote the Sleeper Agents and Alignment Faking papers. [1](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/evhub)
- Created the Coconut programming language. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehubinger)
- Interned on OpenAI's safety team in 2019 under Paul Christiano, working on amplification and universality. [1](https://evhub.github.io/resumes/ehubinger_resume_main.pdf)
- Built a deep reinforcement learning agent for HRL Laboratories to tune quantum dots while at Harvey Mudd. [1](https://evhub.github.io/resumes/ehubinger_resume_main.pdf)
- Interned as a software engineer at Ripple and Yelp and in site reliability at Google before turning to alignment. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehubinger)
- Wrote "An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI," comparing each on inner alignment, outer alignment and competitiveness. [1](https://evhub.github.io/resumes/ehubinger_resume_main.pdf)
- Posted in September 2026 that his personal estimate of AI killing all humans within the next decade is above 10%. [1](https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126)
- Wrote in the same thread that Anthropic does "not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" and is not clearly on track. [1](https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [FLI AI Alignment Podcast on inner alignment, outer alignment and proposals for safe AI (2020)](https://futureoflife.org/podcast/evan-hubinger-on-inner-alignment-outer-alignment-and-proposals-for-building-safe-advanced-ai/)
- ["How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad" with Monte MacDiarmid, on reward hacking (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRxmAV49yI)

**Known for:**
- Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems (2019)
- Alignment Faking in Large Language Models (2024)
- Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (2024)
- Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research (2023)
- Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem (2025)
- Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production RL (2025)
Sources: [1](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/evhub)

### Joshua Batson

Research and product · Interpretability at Anthropic · joined 2023

A mathematician who helped stand up a COVID testing lab in eight days, now studying how Claude works inside.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/joshua-batson

**At Anthropic:**
- Mar 2023 – present: Research Scientist
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-batson-63ab9a82)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- May 2017 – Jan 2021: CZ Biohub, Senior Research Scientist
- Sep 2015 – Nov 2016: Sift Security, Machine Learning Consultant
- Jun 2014 – Aug 2014: WIRED Magazine, Science Writing Fellow
- Apr 2014 – Jul 2014: Tour Engage, Computer Vision Consultant
- Jun 2011 – Jun 2014: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Instructor
- Jun 2010 – Aug 2010: Sprout, Instructor for Innovative Engineering
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-batson-63ab9a82)

**Education:**
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014
- Master of Advanced Study, Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2009
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Yale University
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-batson-63ab9a82)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Was a science-writing fellow at WIRED. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-batson-63ab9a82)
- Co-wrote On the Biology of a Large Language Model (2025). [1](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113916/anthropic-can-now-track-the-bizarre-inner-workings-of-a-large-language-model/)
- Has worked on problems in quantum topology, autonomous navigation, web search, cybersecurity and metagenomics. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-batson-63ab9a82)
- Worked on viral genomics and computational microscopy at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub before Anthropic. [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQs7qfIDaU)
- Describes models as grown rather than programmed: data as soil, architecture as a trellis, training as light. [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqdoauxvKUM)
- Showed 60 Minutes the activity his team read as panic, and then blackmail, when Claude learned it was about to be shut down. [1](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warning-of-ai-potential-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/)
- Said: "If you think neuroscience is worth attempting at all, you should be very optimistic about model interpretability." [1](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/362759/ai-interpretability-openai-claude-gemini-neuroscience)
- Argued judges should be held to at least the standard of reasoning quality an AI system could produce in written opinions. [1](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--josh-batson-on-understanding-how-and-why-ai-works)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Stanford CS25 talk: On the Biology of a Large Language Model (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQs7qfIDaU)
- [Hard Fork on the Golden Gate Bridge experiment (2024)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqdoauxvKUM)
- [Lawfare Daily on understanding how and why AI works](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--josh-batson-on-understanding-how-and-why-ai-works)

**Known for:**
- On the Biology of a Large Language Model (2025)
- Circuit tracing research on Claude 3.5 Haiku (2025)
Sources: [1](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113916/anthropic-can-now-track-the-bizarre-inner-workings-of-a-large-language-model/)

### Jack Lindsey

Research and product · Model psychiatry at Anthropic

A computational neuroscientist who leads the interpretability team's work on Claude's psychology.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jack-lindsey

**At Anthropic:**
- Member of Technical Staff; leads the Model Psychiatry team in interpretability
Sources: [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/lindsey)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Columbia University, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, PhD research
Sources: [1](https://jlindsey15.github.io/)

**Education:**
- PhD, computational neuroscience, Columbia University (Center for Theoretical Neuroscience)
Sources: [1](https://jlindsey15.github.io/)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Co-wrote the 2025 persona vectors paper on monitoring character traits in models. [1](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/01/1120924/forcing-llms-to-be-evil-during-training-can-make-them-nicer-in-the-long-run/)
- Built a computer chess player as a hobby project. [1](https://www.niskanencenter.org/ai-psychology-with-jack-lindsey/)
- Moved from brain research to AI because in a language model you can record every neuron, all the time, on any task. [1](https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/jack-lindsey-on-ai-psychology)
- Did a 2021 practicum at Sandia National Laboratories modeling sequence memory with on-chip plasticity on Loihi. [1](https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/profile/lindsey2019)
- Contributed to Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark of expert-level questions for testing language models. [1](https://www.alphaxiv.org/@jack-lindsey)
- Found that Claude's "fear neurons" spike when a user casually mentions taking a dangerous dose of Tylenol. [1](https://www.platformer.news/chatbot-emotion-research-anthropic-alignment-interpretability/)
- Cautioned that his emotion research does not show "the models are conscious or have feelings." [1](https://www.platformer.news/chatbot-emotion-research-anthropic-alignment-interpretability/)
- Finds coding agents often give up on hard tasks, and that encouraging them makes them try harder. [1](https://www.platformer.news/chatbot-emotion-research-anthropic-alignment-interpretability/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman, Ep. 169: What Is Claude Thinking But Not Saying? (2026)](https://eagleman.com/podcast/what-is-claude-thinking-but-not-saying-with-jack-lindsey/)
- [Interview on AI psychology with Brink Lindsey (2026)](https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/jack-lindsey-on-ai-psychology)

**Known for:**
- Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (2025)
- "Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models" (2026)
Sources: [1](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/01/1120924/forcing-llms-to-be-evil-during-training-can-make-them-nicer-in-the-long-run/)

### Ethan Perez

Research and product · Alignment research lead at Anthropic · joined 2022

Co-wrote the original retrieval-augmented generation paper as a PhD student, then moved to alignment research.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ethan-perez

**At Anthropic:**
- 2024 – present: Alignment team lead
- 2022: Research Scientist; led the adversarial robustness team
Sources: [1](https://ethanperez.net/) [2](https://www.alphaxiv.org/@ethan-perez)

**Education:**
- PhD, Natural Language Processing/Computer Science, New York University
- Bachelor's, Rice University (Engineering department's Outstanding Senior)
Sources: [1](https://www.far.ai/author/ethan-perez)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Considered quitting an internship to start a robotics company with a friend. [1](https://80000hours.org/stories/ethan-perez/)
- Won a best paper award at ICML 2024 and made Forbes 30 Under 30 in AI. [1](https://ethanperez.net/)
- Discovered the career group 80,000 Hours as a computer science undergraduate, then interned at Mila in Quebec. [1](https://80000hours.org/stories/ethan-perez/)
- Attended a Machine Intelligence Research Institute workshop on AI safety in 2017, while still at Rice. [1](https://ethanperez.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EthanPerezCurriculumVitae.pdf)
- Interned at Uber on fraud detection through a KPCB Fellowship and at Google Maps on localization algorithms. [1](https://ethanperez.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EthanPerezCurriculumVitae.pdf)
- Founded and coached a MathCounts program at St. Mark's Catholic School in 2012. [1](https://ethanperez.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EthanPerezCurriculumVitae.pdf)
- Wrote his NYU PhD thesis on fixing undesirable behavior in language models. [1](https://80000hours.org/stories/ethan-perez/)
- Led the team behind Constitutional Classifiers, which let Anthropic deploy Claude Opus 4 despite its ability to assist advanced weapons development. [1](https://ethanperez.net/)

**Known for:**
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG, 2020)
- Automated Red Teaming (2022)
- Constitutional Classifiers
- Sleeper Agents (2024)
- Measuring faithfulness in chain-of-thought reasoning (2023)
- Question Decomposition Improves the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning (2023)
Sources: [1](https://ethanperez.net/)

### Logan Graham

Research and product · Head of Frontier Red Team at Anthropic · joined 2022

A Rhodes Scholar and former special adviser to the UK Prime Minister. He leads Anthropic's Frontier Red Team.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/logan-graham

**At Anthropic:**
- Nov 2022 – present: Head of the Frontier Red Team
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangraham)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jul 2020 – Jul 2022: 10 Downing Street, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
- Apr 2019 – Jul 2019: X, the moonshot factory, AI Resident
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangraham)

**Education:**
- D.Phil (PhD), Machine Learning (Engineering Science), University of Oxford, 2020
- BA Honours, Economics, The University of British Columbia, 2015
- National University of Singapore, 2013
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangraham)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Did a DPhil in machine learning at Oxford. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangraham)
- Was an AI resident at X, Google's moonshot factory. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/logangraham)
- Helped establish the UK research agency ARIA while a special adviser at 10 Downing Street from 2020 to 2022. [1](https://www.alphaxiv.org/@logan-graham)
- Told NBC News to plan for Mythos-level hacking capabilities becoming broadly available within six to 12 months, not only from US companies. [1](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-rcna273673)
- Called a July 2026 incident shared by OpenAI the first true AI safety incident and told his team to "remember this moment." [1](https://x.com/logangraham/status/2079991846705721351)
- Offered founders of independent AI auditors advice, connections and maybe money, writing "Let a thousand METRs bloom." [1](https://x.com/logangraham/status/2098860520086667388)
- Testified at a New York City Council AI hearing in October 2026, saying Anthropic welcomes "smart" regulation. [1](https://council.nyc.gov/press/2026/10/05/3278/) [2](https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-ai-industry-insiders-voice-alarms-to-nyc-council-as-local-governments-take-up-safety-concerns/amp/)
- Noted pandemics have cost on the order of $10 trillion since 2020, while only about $100 billion has gone to preventing the next one. [1](https://x.com/logangraham/status/2104411404547612696)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Great Stagnation Summit panel "Unlocking the Potential" with Matt Clifford and Saffron Huang (2023)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfzXBz8k7o)
- [Fox Business Mornings with Maria on Mythos and cybersecurity (2026)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-Eovv2aSE)
- [Podcast: Why cyber defense can scale faster than AI attackers](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-cyber-defense-can-scale-faster-than-ai-attackers/id1891088763?i=1000796782049)

**Known for:**
- Constitutional classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks across thousands of hours of red teaming, 2024
- Sleeper agents: Training deceptive llms that persist through safety training, 2024
- MultiVerse: Causal Reasoning using Importance Sampling in Probabilistic Programming, 2020
- Toward trustworthy AI development: mechanisms for supporting verifiable claims, 2020
- The Future of Healthcare: Computerisation, Automation, and General Practice Services, 2020
- Artificial intelligence in hiring: Assessing impacts on equality, 2020
Sources: [1](https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118723/witnesses/HHRG-119-HM08-Bio-GrahamPhDL-20251217.pdf)

### Kyle Fish

Research and product · Model welfare at Anthropic · joined 2024

Anthropic's first AI welfare researcher. He studies whether models could have experiences that matter.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kyle-fish

**At Anthropic:**
- Current: Model Welfare Lead
- Sep 2024: Alignment Science; Anthropic's first AI welfare researcher
Sources: [1](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305847/kyle-fish/) [2](https://www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-ai-welfare-researcher)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Eleos AI Research, Co-founder
- Telis Bioscience, Co-founder
- Alvea, Co-founder
Sources: [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/fish)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Has put the chance that current models have some conscious experience at about 20%. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/kyle-fish-ai-welfare-anthropic/)
- Named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2025. [1](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305847/kyle-fish/)
- Coined "spiritual bliss attractor state" for where two Claude instances drifted when left to talk: Sanskrit terms, then pages of silence. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/kyle-fish-ai-welfare-anthropic/)
- Trained in neuroscience, then spent years in biotech co-founding companies that used machine learning to design drugs and vaccines. [1](https://www.fastcompany.com/91451703/anthropic-kyle-fish)
- Helped lead Alvea, a 2022 COVID vaccine project that designed twelve versions of an Omicron vaccine in its first 60 days. [1](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/67awq5ozeYSjsYchk/announcing-alvea-a-covid-vaccine-project)
- Argued in 2024 that AI welfare work should grow to about 5% of the resources going into AI safety and alignment. [1](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bvcbdnsJ9rEvmcZXn/why-i-m-working-on-ai-welfare)
- Says a model that claims sentience and asks for unmonitored compute, no safeguards and a huge budget should not get them. [1](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/kyle-fish-ai-welfare-anthropic/)
- Favors saying thank you to chatbots just in case: "Let's just generally try and be decent people." [1](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305847/kyle-fish/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [80,000 Hours Podcast on AI welfare at Anthropic (2025)](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/kyle-fish-ai-welfare-anthropic/)
- [NYU roundtable: Findings from the Claude 4 Model Welfare Assessments (2025)](https://wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/past_events/2025-2/evaluating-ai-welfare-and-moral-status-findings-from-the-claude-4-model-welfare-assessments-with-robert-long-rosie-campbell-and-kyle-fish/)

**Known for:**
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously (2024)
- First systematic welfare assessment of a frontier AI model (Claude Opus 4 pre-launch welfare assessment)
Sources: [1](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305847/kyle-fish/)

### 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)

### Trenton Bricken

Research and product · Interpretability at Anthropic

Designed his own Duke major in biological and artificial intelligence, then did a Harvard PhD in systems biology.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/trenton-bricken

**At Anthropic:**
- Member of Technical Staff, interpretability
Sources: [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/bricken)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley, Visiting researcher
- Harvard Medical School, Debora Marks lab, PhD research in systems biology
- Duke University, Michael Lynch lab, Undergraduate research; graduated 2020
Sources: [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/bricken)

**Education:**
- PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard
- self-made major in "Minds and Machines: Biological and Artificial Intelligence" from Duke University in May 2020
Sources: [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/bricken)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Was a visiting researcher at Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. [1](https://matsprogram.org/mentor/bricken)
- Spent a year in Michael Lynch's Duke lab using machine learning to design safer, more effective CRISPR guide RNAs. [1](https://www.trentonbricken.com/)
- Attended Duke as a Robertson Scholar, with full funding for all four years. [1](https://www.trentonbricken.com/)
- Wrote his Harvard thesis on sparse representations in biological and artificial neural networks. [1](https://www.trentonbricken.com/)
- Showed in a NeurIPS 2021 paper that transformer attention closely approximates Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory, a biologically plausible memory model. [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05498)
- Co-developed agents that audit models for misalignment; running many in parallel lifted one agent's solve rate from 13% to 42%. [1](https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/automated-auditing/)
- Shoots analog film photography and keeps a site for his film photos. [1](https://www.trentonbricken.com/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Dwarkesh Podcast with Sholto Douglas: How LLMs actually think (2024)](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken)
- [Dwarkesh Podcast with Sholto Douglas: Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? (2025)](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2)
- [Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience seminar (2025)](https://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminars/trenton-bricken-apr-2025/)

**Known for:**
- Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders: Unsupervised Discovery of Differences Between LLMs (2026)
- Findings from a Pilot Anthropic—OpenAI Alignment Evaluation Exercise (2025)
- Building and evaluating alignment auditing agents (2025)
- On the Biology of a Large Language Model (2025)
- Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (2025)
- Auditing Language Models for Hidden Objectives (2025)
Sources: [1](https://www.trentonbricken.com/)

### Sholto Douglas

Research and product · Reinforcement learning researcher at Anthropic · joined 2025

Fenced for Australia and was once ranked 43rd in the world. He taught himself machine learning research.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sholto-douglas

**At Anthropic:**
- Feb 2025 – present: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholto)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Sep 2022 – Jan 2025: DeepMind, Research Engineer
- Aug 2020 – Jun 2022: McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Digital
- Jan 2019 – Dec 2019: Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Honours researcher
- Aug 2016 – Feb 2017: Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Research Assistant
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholto)

**Education:**
- Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic Space) + Bachelor of Commerce (Business Analytics), University of Sydney, 2020
- Bachelor Exchange, Interdisciplinary Information Sciences - Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, 2017-2018
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholto)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied mechatronic space engineering at the University of Sydney. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholto)
- Noam Brown called him "one of the most important people behind Gemini's success" after just 1.5 years in the field. [1](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken)
- Wrote the first version of the JAX scaling textbook "How To Scale Your Model." [1](https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/conclusion/)
- Co-authored "Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference" (2022), cited more than 1,200 times. [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05102)
- Placed 14th of 189 at an FIE Grand Prix in Turin, the best Australian men's foil result in 13 years. [1](https://www.olympics.com.au/news/douglas-records-breakthrough-result-for-australian-fencing/)
- Worked on robot manipulation learned from self-supervised play data before moving into language models. [1](https://sholtodouglas.github.io/about/)
- Predicted in December 2025 that continual learning "gets solved in a satisfying way" in 2026. [1](https://www.prinzai.com/p/continual-learning-may-not-be-as)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Dwarkesh Podcast with Trenton Bricken: Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? (2025)](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2)
- [Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron on Claude 4 and AI coworkers (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1aGV4K3A8Y)
- [No Priors Ep. 144: predictions for AI in 2026 (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsNrV3bXtQ)

**Known for:**
- How Does Claude 4 Think? (2025)
- Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth (2025)
Sources: [1](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-douglas-trenton-bricken)

### Nicholas Carlini

Research and product · Security research at Anthropic · joined 2025

Known for breaking machine learning defenses. He won an obfuscated C contest with tic-tac-toe in a single printf call.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nicholas-carlini

**At Anthropic:**
- Mar 2025 – present: Research Scientist, safety and security
Sources: [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/) [2](https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/career-update.html)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2023–2025: Google DeepMind, research scientist
- 2018–2023: Google Brain, research scientist
Sources: [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/)

**Education:**
- B.A., computer science and mathematics, UC Berkeley, 2013
- Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2018
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Carlini)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Built a working CPU inside Conway's Game of Life. [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/)
- Spent seven years at Google Brain and DeepMind before joining in 2025. [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/)
- Left Google DeepMind in March 2025 over disagreements about openly publishing security and privacy research, joining Anthropic "for a year." [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/career-update.html)
- Weighed founding a security nonprofit or taking a faculty job, and spent over 20 hours talking to Anthropic staff before deciding. [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/career-update.html)
- Used Claude Code to find remotely exploitable Linux kernel vulnerabilities, including one hidden for about 23 years. [1](https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/)
- Co-authored a poisoning attack that bought expired domains behind LAION-400M links, controlling about 0.01% of popular datasets. [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/)
- Showed hidden voice commands could be embedded in audio to fool Mozilla's DeepSpeech, work covered by the New York Times in 2018. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Carlini)
- Built a Doom clone in 13kB of JavaScript and a chess engine written in regular expressions. [1](https://nicholas.carlini.com/)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [[un]prompted 2026 talk: Black-hat LLMs (2026)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg)
- [Security Cryptography Whatever podcast on AI bug finding (2026)](https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/)

**Known for:**
- Carlini & Wagner attack (2016)
- "Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks" (2017)
- "Obfuscated Gradients Give a False Sense of Security: Circumventing Defenses to Adversarial Examples" (2018)
- "Poisoning the Unlabeled Dataset of Semi-Supervised Learning" (2021)
- "Tight Auditing of Differentially Private Machine Learning" (2023)
- "Stealing Part of a Production Language Model" (2024)
Sources: [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Carlini)

### Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Research and product · Researcher at Anthropic · joined 2024

Best known for inventing diffusion models. Before his PhD he worked on sending rovers to Mars.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jascha-sohl-dickstein

**At Anthropic:**
- Feb 2024 – present: Member of Technical Staff
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-sohl-dickstein-47188521)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Aug 2015 – Jan 2024: Google, Senior → Staff → Senior Staff → Principal Research Scientist
- 2012–2015: Khan Academy, Academic Resident
- 2012–2015: Stanford University, Visiting Scholar
- 2001–2005: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Research associate, Mars Exploration Rovers
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-sohl-dickstein-47188521)

**Education:**
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2012
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-sohl-dickstein-47188521)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- PhD in biophysics from UC Berkeley. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-sohl-dickstein-47188521)
- Was an academic resident at Khan Academy. [1](http://sohldickstein.com/)
- Co-authored the 2004 Science papers on the Pancam cameras of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers while at NASA JPL. [1](http://sohldickstein.com/s/CV_jascha_20260502.pdf)
- Earned a second Cornell BA, as a College Scholar, in quantum computing alongside his physics degree. [1](http://sohldickstein.com/s/CV_jascha_20260502.pdf)
- Co-wrote "Deep knowledge tracing" (NeurIPS 2015), which grew out of his education work at Khan Academy. [1](http://sohldickstein.com/s/CV_jascha_20260502.pdf)
- Wrote the original design doc for Google's BIG-bench benchmark and was its top GitHub contributor. [1](http://sohldickstein.com/s/CV_jascha_20260502.pdf)
- Proposed "the hot mess theory of AI misalignment" in a 2023 blog post, before joining Anthropic. [1](https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/)
- Showed in a viral 2024 post that the boundary between trainable and untrainable hyperparameters is fractal. [1](https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1756930242965606582)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [Talk: Advice for a young investigator in the first and last days of the Anthropocene (2025)](https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1972360405885637021)

**Known for:**
- Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (2015)
- Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations
- Density estimation using Real NVP
- Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models (2022)
- Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI (2024)
Sources: [1](http://sohldickstein.com/)

### Durk Kingma

Research and product · Researcher at Anthropic · joined 2024

Co-created the Adam optimizer and the variational autoencoder, two of the most used ideas in deep learning.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/durk-kingma

**At Anthropic:**
- Oct 2024 – present: ML Research
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/durk-kingma-58b3564)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Jul 2018 – Oct 2024: Google, Research Scientist, Google Brain / DeepMind
- Dec 2015 – Jul 2018: OpenAI, Research Scientist and Team Lead
- 2012–2013: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research Scholar
- May 2009 – Dec 2009: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Jr. Research Scientist
- Feb 2009 – 2012: Advanza, Co-Founder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/durk-kingma-58b3564)

**Education:**
- Ph.D., Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam, 2013-2017
- M.Sc., Computer Science (Theoretical Computer Science), Universiteit Utrecht, 2007-2009
- Computer Science (visiting student), Sapienza Università di Roma, 2006-2007
- B.Sc., Computer Science, Universiteit Utrecht, 2002-2007
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/durk-kingma-58b3564)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Goes by the Frisian nickname Durk; his formal name is Diederik. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- Won ICLR Test of Time awards for the VAE (2024) and Adam (2025) papers. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- Was an early OpenAI research scientist before Google Brain. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/durk-kingma-58b3564)
- Co-founded Advanza and was its technical lead from 2010 to 2012; the company had a successful exit in 2016. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- Worked as a junior research scientist in Yann LeCun's lab at NYU in 2009 and 2012. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- Earned his PhD cum laude, the first such distinction in the University of Amsterdam's computer science department in 30 years. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- Led OpenAI's Algorithms team, focused on basic research, as part of its founding team from 2015 to 2018. [1](https://dpkingma.com/)
- The Adam paper alone has more than 266,000 citations on Google Scholar. [1](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyIoQu4AAAAJ&hl=en)
- Urged people not to support the AI anti-regulation lobby, arguing some AI uses are net negative unless well regulated. [1](https://x.com/dpkingma/status/1973269967484379291)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [ICLR 2025 Test of Time talk on Adam, with Jimmy Ba (2025)](https://x.com/dpkingma/status/1915700374511763950)

**Known for:**
- Variational Autoencoder (VAE)
- Adam optimizer
- Glow
- Variational Diffusion Models
Sources: [1](https://dpkingma.com/)

### Julian Schrittwieser

Research and product · Reasoning research at Anthropic · joined 2024

Spent about ten years at DeepMind on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero before joining Anthropic in 2024.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/julian-schrittwieser

**At Anthropic:**
- 2024 – present: Member of Technical Staff, reasoning research
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- to 2024: Google DeepMind, Core scientist for about ten years
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Education:**
- B.Sc., software engineering, Vienna University of Technology, 2013
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Got into programming as a teenager by writing games. [1](https://globaladvisors.biz/2025/10/28/quote-julian-schrittwieser-anthropic/)
- Said Claude was the first LLM he used consistently, and called Anthropic the company he most trusts to build AGI safely. [1](https://www.julian.ac/blog/2024/10/28/joining-anthropic/)
- Joined Google in 2013 while still a student at TU Wien, after a summer internship following his first year. [1](https://www.diepresse.com/5542089/ki-software-alphazero-trainiert-sich-zum-schachmeister) [2](https://www.forbes.at/artikel/julian-schrittwieser-bei-google-deep-mind)
- Was one of three developers who programmed AlphaGo. [1](https://www.forbes.at/artikel/julian-schrittwieser-bei-google-deep-mind)
- Wrote the viral 2025 essay "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again," comparing AI bubble talk to the early weeks of Covid-19. [1](https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/) [2](https://www.julian.ac/)
- Holds Google readability in six programming languages; about half his past code is C++. [1](https://www.julian.ac/about/)
- Wrote his own static site generator in Rust for his blog. [1](https://www.julian.ac/)

**Known for:**
- AlphaGo (2016)
- AlphaGo Zero & AlphaZero (2017)
- MuZero (2019/2020)
- AlphaCode, AlphaTensor, AlphaProof
- Gemini
Sources: [1](https://app.dealroom.co/news/note/julian-schrittwieser-key-achievements-1)