Kyle Fish
Bio
Updated 03/22/26Kyle Fish is the Model Welfare Lead at Anthropic, where he joined in September 2024 as the company's first dedicated AI welfare researcher. His work focuses on assessing whether frontier AI systems like Claude might have conscious experiences and deserve moral consideration, including running systematic welfare assessments and self-interaction experiments on AI models. Before joining Anthropic, he co-founded Eleos AI Research and co-authored the report "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" alongside philosopher David Chalmers. His earlier career spanned biosecurity work at Telis Bioscience and Alvea (a COVID vaccine startup he co-founded), cellular agriculture research at Tufts and Mission Barns, global health work at Medical Teams International, and pandemic preparedness research at Blueprint Biosecurity focused on far-UVC technology. He was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2025 and is also a mentor in the MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars) program.
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