Claim · 2025-03-05 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Nicholas Carlini announced on 5 March 2025 that he had decided to leave Google DeepMind after seven years; he stated that he no longer believed DeepMind (and DeepMind leadership) supported the type of high-impact security and privacy research he likes to do.

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Nicholas Carlini → had departure announced from → Google DeepMind

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Claim and evidence

Nicholas Carlinihad departure announced from ↓Google DeepMind

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2025-03-05 · event Records dated 2025 →
Activity stage: announced
Role: Not stated (researcher; he joined Google Brain in 2018)

Scope and limitsA first-person announcement; it does not name his title or a leaving date. The stated reason is his own and is attributed; the post notes that his disagreement is with DeepMind leadership, not his immediate colleagues.

Stated reason, as given by Nicholas Carlini (2025-03-05)

Carlini wrote that he no longer believed DeepMind (and DeepMind leadership) supported the type of high-impact security and privacy research he likes to do. Attributed to Nicholas Carlini, in “Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic”; not a finding about why it happened.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic

nicholas.carlini.com · 2025-03-05

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Source excerpt

“I have decided to leave Google DeepMind after seven years, and will be joining Anthropic for a year to continue my research on adversarial machine learning.”

Location in source Opening paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nicholas Carlini
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 a8d2a68e6484630b04b5028dc1d7c0b974ffc4861f6b5e5d595c4209bd0253c6) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nicholas Carlini, “Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic”, 2025-03-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (26 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L055) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic

nicholas.carlini.com · 2025-03-05

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Source excerpt

“I no longer believe DeepMind (and DeepMind leadership … ) supports the type of high-impact security and privacy research I like to do”

Location in source Section “Why am I leaving?”, paragraph beginning “But most importantly” (the footnote marker omitted)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nicholas Carlini
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 a8d2a68e6484630b04b5028dc1d7c0b974ffc4861f6b5e5d595c4209bd0253c6) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nicholas Carlini, “Career Update: Google DeepMind -> Anthropic”, 2025-03-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (23 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Abridged quotation: the ellipses mark omitted words, so it is not one continuous string. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L055) re-read the record’s sources. Locator corrected from the cross-family check (maintainer’s adjudication of 2026-10-31, item 10). No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.

Date. Date of the post; the last working day is not stated.

Record ID lg2-oa-carlini-gdm-departure-2025