personnel
Nelson Elhage — Research Scientist at Anthropic
Metadata
| Source Table | personnel |
| Source ID | MwZ6VCPEIg |
| Source URL | nelhage.com/ |
| Children | — |
| Created | Apr 10, 2026, 8:49 PM |
| Updated | Apr 10, 2026, 8:49 PM |
| Synced | Apr 10, 2026, 8:49 PM |
Record Data
id | MwZ6VCPEIg |
personId | Nelson Elhage(person) |
organizationId | Anthropic(organization) |
personEntityId | Nelson Elhage(person) |
personDisplayName | — |
orgEntityId | Anthropic(organization) |
orgDisplayName | — |
role | Research Scientist |
roleType | career |
startDate | 2021 |
endDate | — |
isFounder | No |
appointedBy | — |
background | — |
source | nelhage.com/ |
notes | Key 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). |
Source Check Verdicts
partial85% confidence
Last checked: 4/13/2026
The source confirms Nelson Elhage works at Anthropic and is a researcher/engineer there. However, the source does not specify his exact job title as 'Research Scientist' — it uses the terms 'engineer and researcher' instead. The source also does not provide a start date of 2021. The person and organization are confirmed, but the specific role title and start date cannot be verified from this source.
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