person

Jared Kaplan

Anthropic co-founder; scaling-laws co-author

Theoretical physicist who co-authored the 2020 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models' paper. Anthropic co-founder and chief science officer.

current Co-founder; Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

past Former Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University

@jareddkaplan

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Theorist of scaling laws who left academic physics for AI safety research via Anthropic.

If scaling laws continue, we will have models far beyond current capabilities well within this decade. That is a reason to take safety seriously, not to slow down research on safety.

¶ articleJared Kaplan, Anthropic· Anthropic· 2023· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Jared Kaplan'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
shared 1 · J=1.00
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.