---
title: "Chris Olah"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Chris Olah"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["On the Biology of a Large Language Model","attribution graphs","Anthropic interpretability team","Jack Lindsey"]
---


Co-founder of Anthropic's interpretability team and, before that, a driving figure behind the Circuits thread and Distill.pub — the research tradition of treating neural-network internals as objects worth reverse-engineering that [[entity-on-the-biology-of-a-large-language-model]] descends from directly. Co-author on that paper; named individually in the vault for the first time in this session's capture, though his methodological lineage has been present implicitly since the vault's earliest note on the paper.

## References
- [[claim-biology-llm-refusal-chain-is-harmful-request-recognition]] · [[claim-biology-llm-jailbreak-sentence-boundary-delays-not-triggers-refusal]]
- [[entity-on-the-biology-of-a-large-language-model]] · [[entity-jack-lindsey]] · [[entity-attribution-graphs]]