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Dave Orr

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Head of Safeguards at Anthropic

Orr leads Anthropic's Safeguards team, which builds classifiers, evaluations and enforcement systems to reduce dangerous uses of frontier models. He moved into AI safety after leading engineering at Google DeepMind, following a decade working on language technology and Google Assistant.

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Current role
Head of Safeguards
Previously
Director of Engineering,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

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