Jared Kaplan, PhD

Jared Kaplan is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI lab whose research and products put safety at the frontier. As a public benefit corporation, Anthropic is dedicated to building AI systems that benefit humanity.

Jared’s research on scaling laws revolutionized the AI industry by providing a framework for understanding and predicting the behavior of advanced AI systems, guiding resource allocation, and shaping the development of transformative technologies. Jared also helped pioneer Constitutional AI, an approach to AI development that aims to create AI systems that are constrained by and aligned with a set of predetermined principles and values. He spent the first 15 years of his career as a theoretical physicist in academia, and prior to co-founding Anthropic, Jared was instrumental in building GPT-3 and Codex at OpenAI.

In addition to his work at Anthropic, Jared is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught courses on the foundations of deep learning. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Stanford University.