C hristopher Olah is a computer scientist and researcher who is a co-founder of the artificial intelligence safety and research company, Anthropic. He is known for his influential work in the field of AI interpretability, which focuses on understanding the complex inner workings of large neural networks. His research aims to make powerful AI systems more transparent and controllable.

Olah was previously a researcher at Google Brain and OpenAI, two of the world's leading AI research labs. In 2021, he joined a group of former OpenAI researchers, led by Dario Amodei, to found Anthropic. The company was founded with a strong focus on AI safety and aims to build reliable and beneficial AI systems. Anthropic has developed its own large language models, like Claude, to compete with OpenAI's GPT series, and has attracted billions of dollars in funding from major tech companies like Google and Amazon, making its co-founders, including Olah, billionaires on paper.