Anthropic's Logan Graham opens on red teaming and safe development
Logan Graham introduces himself as head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, whose job is finding the most dangerous capabilities in Anthropic's AI systems. He says AI's potential is immense but risks must be mitigated through safe development.
How about now?
We hear you.
Right.
Speaker Menon and members of the council, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.
My name is Logan Graham.
I lead Anthropic's Frontier Red team.
It's my team's job to do the science of finding the most dangerous capabilities of our AI systems.
We then work with a number of other teams across Anthropic to ensure that our models don't do things that they shouldn't.
AI is powerful enough that getting this wrong has real consequences for individuals, institutions, public trust.
My team is one of many at Anthropic built to specifically make sure that that doesn't happen.
We believe that our models have immense potential to enhance our lives.
I dream, for example, of a world where we can cure diseases like the ones that I grew up with and where the infrastructure that we all rely on every day is secure.
But we also believe that such a powerful technology has risks.
That means that we have to develop and deploy it safely.
My team and I work every day to make sure that that potential is fulfilled.
We welcome smart regulation and we've actively advocated for it in New York State, across the country, and around the world.
That includes working with state and federal leaders on concrete measures like independent evaluators and disclosure of risk assessments and safety incidents.
And so we're glad that the city council is having this hearing and at such an important moment in the development of AI.
Anthropic fundamentally was founded on the belief that the promises of AI to make everyone's life better are extraordinary.
But if we're going to secure its benefits, we have to work relentlessly to do the science of mitigating the risks.