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#Anthropic

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People (12)

  • Amanda Askell Amanda Askell is the philosopher who leads the team shaping the character of Anthropic's Claude and is the principal author of its Constitution, an NYU-trained ethicist from the effective-altruism movement who was formerly married to its cofounder William MacAskill.
  • Ben Buchanan Georgetown CSET cyber and AI scholar hired into the Biden White House under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, who became its first Special Advisor for AI and later an outside advisor to Anthropic.
  • Caroline Ellison Jane Street trader turned Alameda Research chief executive who pleaded guilty in December 2022, testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, forfeited Anthropic shares and was released from federal custody in January 2026.
  • Daniela Amodei Daniela Amodei is the cofounder and president of Anthropic, who ran operations and people functions at Stripe and OpenAI before starting the company with her brother Dario, and who is married to Open Philanthropy cofounder Holden Karnofsky.
  • Dario Amodei Dario Amodei is the cofounder and chief executive of Anthropic, a physicist and computational neuroscientist who led GPT-2 and GPT-3 as OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2020 with a group of colleagues to build a rival AI lab.
  • Dustin Moskovitz Facebook and Asana cofounder whose Good Ventures foundation funds Open Philanthropy, the chief backer of AI-safety policy, research and journalism; an early Anthropic investor and a leading Democratic donor.
  • Holden Karnofsky Cofounder of GiveWell and Open Philanthropy and its co-CEO until 2023, a Redwood Research director, an OpenAI director from 2017 to 2021, Anthropic staff from 2025, and husband of Anthropic president Daniela Amodei.
  • Jack Clark Jack Clark is the cofounder and head of policy at Anthropic, a former technology journalist who ran policy and communications at OpenAI, co-chairs Stanford's AI Index, and writes the Import AI newsletter.
  • John Schulman John Schulman is an OpenAI cofounder and reinforcement-learning researcher who created the PPO algorithm, helped build ChatGPT and the RLHF alignment behind it, left OpenAI for Anthropic in August 2024, and then cofounded Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab as chief scientist.
  • Luke Muehlhauser Open Philanthropy's head of AI governance grantmaking, investigator on its grants launching CSET and funding RAND at Jason Matheny's discretion, and an Anthropic director until May 2024.
  • Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment president who sat on Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust in 2026 before becoming Anthropic's first chief global affairs officer in August 2026.
  • Paul Christiano OpenAI alignment lead and Open Philanthropy adviser who founded the Alignment Research Center, sat on Anthropic's trust, ran AI safety at NIST's AI Safety Institute and joined the OpenAI Foundation board in 2026.

Organizations (7)

  • Anthropic AI company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers from the effective-altruism milieu, funded early by Tallinn, Moskovitz and Bankman-Fried, deployed on classified networks, then blacklisted by the Pentagon in 2026.
  • Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council Advisory council formed by Anthropic in August 2025 of former senators and defense, intelligence, nuclear and Justice Department officials, including a former deputy CIA director and NSA cybersecurity director.
  • Asana Work-management software company founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, controlled by Moskovitz, whose board long included OpenAI director Adam D'Angelo and which buys AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Jane Street Capital New York proprietary trading firm that trained Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, agreed in 2024 to buy FTX's Anthropic shares, and faces India's 2025 manipulation order and the Terraform estate's insider trading suit.
  • Long-Term Benefit Trust Body of financially disinterested trustees empowered to elect a growing share of Anthropic's board, founded in 2023 with trustees from RAND, Effective Ventures and the AI-safety world; a board majority from 2026.
  • Omidyar Network Philanthropic investment firm of The Omidyar Group, run through an LLC and a private foundation, which bought Anthropic shares from the FTX estate in 2024 and funds AI-policy groups including Americans for Responsible Innovation.
  • Public First Action 501(c)(4) given 40 million dollars by Anthropic in 2026, linked to the Public First super PAC funded by Anthropic staff, which passes money to committees backing Alex Bores and other candidates.