Research and product · Head of Frontier Red Team

Logan Graham

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

Career

Anthropic
- Head of the Frontier Red TeamNov 2022 – present
10 Downing Street
- Special Adviser to the Prime MinisterJul 2020 – Jul 2022
X, the moonshot factory
- AI ResidentApr 2019 – Jul 2019

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

Did a DPhil in machine learning at Oxford.
Was an AI resident at X, Google's moonshot factory.
Helped establish the UK research agency ARIA while a special adviser at 10 Downing Street from 2020 to 2022.
Told NBC News to plan for Mythos-level hacking capabilities becoming broadly available within six to 12 months, not only from US companies.
Called a July 2026 incident shared by OpenAI the first true AI safety incident and told his team to "remember this moment."
Offered founders of independent AI auditors advice, connections and maybe money, writing "Let a thousand METRs bloom."
Testified at a New York City Council AI hearing in October 2026, saying Anthropic welcomes "smart" regulation.
Noted pandemics have cost on the order of $10 trillion since 2020, while only about $100 billion has gone to preventing the next one.

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

2015 Rhodes Scholarship (British Columbia & Balliol) · National Scholar, Wesbrook Scholar, and C.K. Choi Scholar