Amanda Askell, a Scottish academic-turned-AI researcher, leads the personality alignment team at Anthropic, the $350 billion AI company behind the chatbot Claude. Her job, as the Wall Street Journal put it, is simple in description but vast in scope: to teach Claude how to be good.
From Scottish classrooms to Silicon Valley
Born Amanda Hall in Prestwick on Scotland’s west coast, Askell was raised by her mother, a teacher. A precocious student who devoured Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, she developed an early fascination with big philosophical questions.
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