On May 19, 2025, Alex Tamkin, research scientist at Anthropic, will stop by the lab for our seminar series.

Click here to register for the Zoom. Members of the Stanford community who wish to attend in person can register by clicking here.

More details will be posted here when they become available.

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An abstract for the talk will be posted here soon.

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Alex Tamkin is a researcher at Anthropic interested in how we can understand and improve the societal impacts of AI systems. Some recent work in this vein:

• • Tracking the economic impacts of AI systems (Anthropic Economic Index)
• • New tools for understanding AI’s broader societal impacts (Clio)
• • New interfaces for human-AI collaboration (Claude Artifacts)
• • New interpretability methods to understand and steer models (Codebook Features) 
• • New ways for AI systems to understand what people want (Eliciting human preferences with language models)

Previously, Alex completed his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford, where he was advised by Noah Goodman and part of the Stanford AI Lab and Stanford NLP Group.