Claim · 2025-07 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

In an 80,000 Hours interview recorded in July 2025, Holden Karnofsky stated that his title at Anthropic was “member of technical staff” and that he reported to the chief science officer, Jared Kaplan.

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Holden Karnofsky → held role at → Anthropic

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Holden Karnofskyheld role at ↓Anthropic

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Date: 2025-07 · snapshot Records dated 2025 →
Role: Member of technical staff (advising the company on preparing for risks from advanced AI; reporting to the chief science officer)

Scope and limitsA first-person statement in a published interview. It establishes the role as described at recording time, not a start date or a continuing role. Statements about his family are not recorded.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

#226 – Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes

80,000 Hours · 2025-10-30

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Source excerpt

“My title is “member of technical staff” — which is almost everybody’s title, so that tells you nothing. I report to the chief science officer, Jared [Kaplan], and my job is basically to advise the company on preparing for risks from advanced AI.”

Location in source Transcript, section “What Holden now does at Anthropic” [00:28:30]

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Robert Wiblin; Holden Karnofsky
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 f678f5fb1daf712f29a798264b5114196e7f113bce81786f4f4b53b53c562714) directly from the publisher.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robert Wiblin, Holden Karnofsky, “#226 – Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes”, 2025-10-30.
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 (43 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. No human editorial review.

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#226 – Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes

80,000 Hours · 2025-10-30

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Source excerpt

“This episode was recorded on July 25 and 28, 2025.”

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How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Robert Wiblin; Holden Karnofsky
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 f678f5fb1daf712f29a798264b5114196e7f113bce81786f4f4b53b53c562714) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robert Wiblin, Holden Karnofsky, “#226 – Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes”, 2025-10-30.
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 (10 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. 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. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.

Date. Interview recorded on 25 and 28 July 2025, published on 30 October 2025; the host says he joined Anthropic about six months earlier, which gives no exact start date.

Record ID lg2-oa-karnofsky-anthropic-mts-2025