Matthew Botvinick is a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, where he leads the company’s work on AI and the rule of law. He joined Anthropic after serving as Senior Director of Research and Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at Google DeepMind, which he had joined in 2016 following 20 years in academia.
Botvinick’s academic career began with a Ph.D. in the neural basis of cognition from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Botvinick has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles spanning AI, deep learning, reinforcement learning, cognitive science, and computational neuroscience, as well as the book AI and Political Freedom from Princeton University Press.
Botvinick holds an M.D. from Cornell University with board certification in psychiatry. Alongside his work at Anthropic, Botvinick is a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School.
