MIT
Alexandre PassosMember of Technical Staff · AnthropicResearcher↗
Researcher
Catherine Olsson
AnthropicMember of Technical Staff
Olsson is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, known for work on "induction heads" and understanding the internal mechanisms of language models.
Career & education
Current roleAnthropicMar 2021-presentMember of Technical Staff
AnthropicMar 2021-presentPreviously
Coefficient Giving2019-2021Senior Program Associate
Google Brain2017-2019Software Engineer
OpenAI2016-2017Software Engineer
Coefficient Giving2019-2021Google Brain2017-2019OpenAI2016-2017Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations41,317As of Oct 20, '26
citations+6,666Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
With Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath, Sandipan Kundu, Amanda Askell, Jackson Kernion, Andy Jones, Anna Chen and others ·Trained AI assistants to critique and improve their answers using a written set of principles.
Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
With Yuntao Bai, Andy L. Jones, Kamal Ndousse, Amanda Askell, Anna Chen, Nova DasSarma, Dawn Drain and others ·Training AI assistants to be more helpful and less harmful using human feedback.
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