Member of Technical Staff is often a catchall term for “we don’t want to pigeonhole you into a specific role, you do useful stuff in whatever way seems to add the most value”, I wouldn’t read much into it
From here it seems that indeed «he focuses on the design of the company’s Responsible Scaling Policy and other aspects of preparing for the possibility of highly advanced AI systems in the future.»
It seems that lots of people with all sorts of roles at AI companies have the formal role “member of technical staff”
Holden Karnofsky has joined Anthropic (LinkedIn profile). I haven’t been able to find more information.
“Member of Technical Staff”—That’s surprising. I assumed he was more interested in the policy angle.
Member of Technical Staff is often a catchall term for “we don’t want to pigeonhole you into a specific role, you do useful stuff in whatever way seems to add the most value”, I wouldn’t read much into it
From here it seems that indeed «he focuses on the design of the company’s Responsible Scaling Policy and other aspects of preparing for the possibility of highly advanced AI systems in the future.»
It seems that lots of people with all sorts of roles at AI companies have the formal role “member of technical staff”
Let’s hope he understands the power of the dark side.