AGI Strategies

person

Sam McCandlish

Anthropic co-founder

Anthropic co-founder and research lead on training methods. Contributor to foundational scaling-law research at OpenAI before joining Anthropic.

current Co-founder and Research Lead, Anthropic

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Technical leader at Anthropic contributing to training-method advances aligned with safety commitments.

Training methods shape what the model is, and what it might be willing to do. That's where alignment work actually happens.
articleAnthropic research· Anthropic· 2023· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

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

  • Aaron Courville

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.