- Role
- Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
- Joined Anthropic
- 2021
- Forbes estimate
- $15.5B net worth, as of 2026-10-18
Forbes' real-time estimate, based on its own valuation of each co-founder's stake. Anthropic has not published founder holdings.
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Career
- Anthropic
- Responsible Scaling OfficerOct 2024 – present
- Co-founder and Chief Science OfficerJan 2021 – present
- OpenAI
- Research ConsultantJan 2019 – Dec 2020
- Johns Hopkins University
- ProfessorSep 2012
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Postdoctoral ResearcherSep 2009 – Aug 2013
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Harvard University, 2009
- Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Math, Stanford University, 2005
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Lesser-known facts
- PhD in physics from Harvard (2009); worked on quantum gravity and AdS/CFT before AI.
- Met Dario Amodei in graduate school; they later shared an apartment in San Francisco.
- Trains in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Got into physics wanting to build a faster-than-light drive, and was at first skeptical that AI was a big deal.
- Co-wrote "The Effective Field Theory of Inflation," an influential cosmology paper.
- Started researching machine learning in early 2018 while on the Johns Hopkins physics faculty, aiming to help make these systems safe.
- Co-wrote the 2021 Codex paper, "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code," with OpenAI researchers.
- Decided in May 2025 that Claude Opus 4 needed AI Safety Level 3 protections after tests showed it could help amateurs with bioweapons.
- Told the Guardian humanity must decide by 2027 to 2030 whether to let AI recursively self-improve, calling it "the ultimate risk."
Research papers before Anthropic
Who else wrote these papers →Known for
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
- A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators (2011)
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Honors
Hertz Fellowship (2005) · Sloan Research Fellowship · NSF CAREER Award (2015)
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