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Chris Olah

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Financial

VerifiedEquity Pledge Fraction80%Jan 2026view →

Background

Failed source checkEducationAttended University of Toronto (did not complete degree); Thiel Fellow—view →
GitHubhttps://github.com/colah—view →
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vKAKE1gAAAAJ—view →
Notable ForPioneer of neural network interpretability and visualization; co-founder of Anthropic; creator of Distill.pub and the Circuits thread at Transformer Circuits—view →
Social Media@ch402—view →
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Olah—view →

Philanthropy

EA Alignment Estimate40%–60%Apr 2026view →

General

Websitehttps://colah.github.io.—2 pts▶
As OfValueLink
—https://colah.github.io.view →
—https://colah.github.ioview →

Career History

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OrganizationTitleStartSourceNotesEndSource check
AnthropicCo-founder, Interpretability Research Lead2021-01colah.github.ioCo-founded Anthropic; leads interpretability research—Not checked
Google BrainResearch Scientist2015en.wikipedia.orgResearch scientist at Google Brain; published foundational interpretability work2018Not checked
OpenAIResearcher2018en.wikipedia.orgResearcher at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic2021-01Not checked
Google DeepMindResearch Scientist2015—Research scientist at Google Brain; published foundational interpretability work2018Not checked
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