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Jared Kaplan

Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

Search every verified Jared Kaplan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2023 interview, Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief science officer at Anthropic, discussed his motivations for working on artificial intelligence and the concept of scaling laws. Kaplan stated that he was drawn to AI by fundamental questions about the universe, intelligence, and the mind. He described scaling laws as a predictable relationship between a model's performance and the amount of data and compute used to train it, noting that this work helped inspire GPT-3. Kaplan argued that these predictable trends indicate that more intelligent systems are achievable in the near future. Kaplan also expressed the view that there is no reason to imagine that an AI system cannot be created that is much more intelligent than humans, and that such a system would be better at understanding the laws of physics. He contrasted his perspective as a physicist with what he described as a lack of "collective trauma" regarding AI, stating that he approaches the field with "fresh eyes."

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