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Amanda Askell

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Research Scientist (Alignment Finetuning) at Anthropic

🇳🇿 New Zealander

Askell is one of the best-known philosophers working inside a frontier AI lab. At Anthropic she helped define Claude's character—how the model handles uncertainty, disagreement, honesty, and difficult choices—bringing ideas from ethics and decision theory into the everyday behavior of a widely used AI assistant.

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Background

Current role
Research Scientist (Alignment Finetuning) 2021-present
Previously
2018-2021Research Scientist (Policy),
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26232,678186,136139,593Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
232,678citations as of Sep 1, '26+8,088 since Aug 1, '26
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