ClaimsDaniela Amodei

“There's not a very strong distinction between research and engineering, researchers write code, engineers contribute to research.”

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic president, interview 4 March 2022 Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic (Future of Life Institute)

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Factual Their own work or organisation

At Anthropic there is no strong distinction between research and engineering: researchers write code and engineers contribute to research.

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It describes internal working practice.

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Daniela Amodei, “At Anthropic there is no strong distinction between research and engineering: researchers write code and engineers contribute to research.” (said 4 March 2022). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_7928583b9735, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7928583b9735

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