Benjamin Mann is a co-founder and member of the technical staff at Anthropic, an AI safety startup based in San Francisco. He was previously a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, where he worked on infrastructure, efficiency, and safety for GPT-3. Before that, Mann was a senior software engineer at Google, where he helped build Google's carpooling service Waze Carpool. He has also worked at research organizations like the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and startups focusing on AI and automation. He studied computer science at Columbia University. His goal is to develop AI systems that are helpful, harmless, and honest.