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Nelson Elhage — Research Scientist at Anthropic

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Source URLnelhage.com/
ParentAnthropic
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CreatedMar 24, 2026, 8:45 PM
UpdatedApr 10, 2026, 8:49 PM
SyncedApr 10, 2026, 8:49 PM

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notesKey contributor to mechanistic interpretability research; co-authored 'Toy Models of Superposition' and other foundational interpretability papers Per nelhage.com, currently on Anthropic pretraining team; previously worked on reverse-engineering large language models (interpretability/circuits).

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unverifiable85% confidence

Last checked: 9/14/2026

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