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Matthew Botvinick
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Researcher, Anthropic Institute at AnthropicResident Fellow at Yale Law School
Botvinick spent decades studying how the brain learns, plans, and exercises self-control, then helped bring those insights into DeepMind's reinforcement-learning research. At the Anthropic Institute he now leads work on AI and the rule of law: how powerful systems may reshape courts, government, and legal institutions.
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Current roles
Researcher, Anthropic Institute 2026-presentAnthropic
AnthropicResident FellowYale Law School
Previously
Until 2026Senior Director of Research, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMindProfessor in Neural Computation, 
Princeton University
Princeton UniversityAbout this data
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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