Trenton Bricken.

Trenton Bricken

Technical staff, Alignment Science team
Anthropic

Trenton Bricken is a member of technical staff on the Alignment Science team at Anthropic. He is currently enabling Claude to automatically audit and detect misalignment.

Bricken earned his Ph.D. in systems biology at Harvard University. He previously graduated from Duke University with a self-made major in “Minds and Machines: Biological and Artificial Intelligence.”

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