Kyle Fish

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Model Welfare LeadCurrent
   • Alignment Science; Anthropic's first AI welfare researcherSep 2024
2. 
   Eleos AI Research

   • Co-founder
3. T
   Telis Bioscience

   • Co-founder
4. 
   Alvea

   • Co-founder

Lesser-known facts

• Has put the chance that current models have some conscious experience at about 20%.
• Named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2025.
• Coined "spiritual bliss attractor state" for where two Claude instances drifted when left to talk: Sanskrit terms, then pages of silence.
• Trained in neuroscience, then spent years in biotech co-founding companies that used machine learning to design drugs and vaccines.
• Helped lead Alvea, a 2022 COVID vaccine project that designed twelve versions of an Omicron vaccine in its first 60 days.
• Argued in 2024 that AI welfare work should grow to about 5% of the resources going into AI safety and alignment.
• Says a model that claims sentience and asks for unmonitored compute, no safeguards and a huge budget should not get them.
• Favors saying thank you to chatbots just in case: "Let's just generally try and be decent people."

Known for

• Taking AI Welfare Seriously (2024)
• First systematic welfare assessment of a frontier AI model (Claude Opus 4 pre-launch welfare assessment)

Honors

TIME100 AI 2025

Interviews and talks

• 80,000 Hours Podcast on AI welfare at Anthropic (2025)80000hours.org
• NYU roundtable: Findings from the Claude 4 Model Welfare Assessments (2025)wp.nyu.edu