People
People at Anthropic
34 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Anthropic; 29 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Amanda Askell
Leads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment)
Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution
Ami Vora
Chief Product Officer
Chief Product Officer of Anthropic, leading the product organization behind Claude
Arthur Conmy
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic Member of Technical Staff; former Google DeepMind senior research engineer; ACDC first author
Awni Hannun
Member of the Technical Staff
Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Ben Mann
Co-founder
Anthropic co-founder; co-author of the GPT-3 paper and of Anthropic's RLHF and Constitutional AI papers
Boris Cherny
Software Engineer; creator and Head of Claude Code
Creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic; author of O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript
Chris Olah
Co-founder
Anthropic co-founder working on reverse engineering neural networks; previously led interpretability at OpenAI
Daniela Amodei
Co-founder and President
Co-founder and President of Anthropic, building the people, culture, and governance behind Claude
Dario Amodei
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a physicist turned AI leader behind Claude and safety research
Diederik P. Kingma
Research on large-scale machine learning (2024–current)
Researcher at Anthropic; first author of the Variational Autoencoder and Adam optimizer papers
Ethan Perez
Researcher
Anthropic safety researcher; co-author of the RAG, red-teaming, and Constitutional Classifiers work
Eugene Yan
Member of Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; former Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Evan Hubinger
Alignment Stress-Testing lead
Alignment Stress-Testing lead at Anthropic; first author of the Sleeper Agents paper
Jack Clark
Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit
Anthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; writes the Import AI newsletter
Jan Leike
Leads the Alignment Science team
Leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic; formerly co-led Superalignment at OpenAI
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Member of Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Mike Krieger
Head of Anthropic Labs
Head of Anthropic Labs; Instagram co-founder and former Anthropic Chief Product Officer
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Nikhil Thorat
Named in Thorat's GitHub profile bio (role not stated)
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
Olivier Chafik
Anthropic is the company listed on Chafik's GitHub profile
MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp
Paul Smith
Chief Commercial Officer
Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropic; previously Chief Commercial Officer at ServiceNow
Rohan Taori
Researcher on the pretraining team
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Sam McCandlish
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Architect; co-led the 2020 scaling-laws research at OpenAI
Samuel Marks
Member of Technical Staff; leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam of the Alignment Science team
Leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam at Anthropic; first author of a study on auditing hidden objectives
Samuel R. Bowman
Technical AI safety researcher
Technical AI safety researcher at Anthropic; NYU associate professor on leave; co-author of Petri
Tom Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Compute Officer
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Compute Officer; first author of the GPT-3 paper
Azalia Mirhoseini
Industry AI lab role, working on Claude among other projects (earlier role)
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Collin Burns
Worked at Anthropic (earlier role)
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research
John Schulman
Research on the Alignment Science team (earlier role)
Co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab; OpenAI co-founder and first author of PPO and TRPO
Kai Fronsdal
Anthropic Fellow (earlier role)
Research engineer at Meridian Labs and lead author of Petri, the open-source alignment auditing tool
Neel Nanda
Language model interpretability researcher (earlier role)
Runs the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; creator of the TransformerLens library
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