Stanford University
Amir SalekCompute · AnthropicEngineer↗Both at Anthropic
Executive · Engineer
Dave Orr
AnthropicHead of Safeguards
Orr leads Anthropic's Safeguards team[1], 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.
Career & education
Current roleAnthropic2025-presentHead of Safeguards
Anthropic2025-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2023-2025Director of Engineering
Google2012-2023
Google DeepMind2023-2025Google2012-2023Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
References
- Dave Orr — joining Anthropic as Head of Safeguardslinkedin.com
First-person announcement of joining Anthropic as Head of Safeguards; also describes a decade on Google Research and Assistant followed by Gemini safety work.
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