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Christopher Olah

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Co-founder at Anthropic

🇨🇦 Canadian

Olah pioneered modern neural-network interpretability, from feature visualization and the Distill journal to mechanistic interpretability, which seeks to reverse-engineer a model's learned computations. As an Anthropic co-founder he has built this into a major empirical program for understanding frontier models.

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Background

Current role
Co-founder 2021-present
Previously
2018-2020Member of Technical Staff,
2015-2018
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 10, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26123,866110,25496,642Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
123,866citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,408 since Aug 1, '26
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