person

Catherine Olsson

Anthropic; ex-OpenAI; AI safety community organizer

Anthropic researcher and longtime fixture of the AI safety research community. Co-author of OpenAI's 'AI and Compute' analysis. Was a longtime safety advocate at Google Brain and Open Philanthropy.

current Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

past Researcher, OpenAI

@catherineols

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Long-time community organizer for alignment research; helped seed the EA-aligned safety pipeline at OpenAI before joining Anthropic.

We're seeing the largest AI training runs grow more than 300,000x in compute over six years, an order of magnitude faster than Moore's Law. The implications for safety planning are immediate.

¶ articleAI and Compute· OpenAI· 2018-05· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Catherine Olsson's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aaron Courville
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Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author
Adam Jermyn
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Anthropic; previously astrophysics
Adam Kalai
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Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety
Agnes Callard
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University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist
Ajeya Cotra
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Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster
Alan Turing
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Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.