Alumni Trailblazer Award

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Publication Date

10-9-2026

Bio

Jared Kaplan is Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI lab dedicated to developing safe, beneficial AI. His research on scaling laws revolutionized the field by providing a framework for understanding and predicting advanced AI systems, guiding resource allocation and technological development. He also helped pioneer Constitutional AI, an approach designed to align AI systems with predetermined principles and values. A theoretical physicist for 15 years, Jared helped build GPT-3 and Codex at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic. He is also an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches deep learning foundations. Jared holds a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard and bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics from Stanford. Named to Time’s 2025 list of the Top 100 AI people, Jared exemplifies IMSA’s vision of alumni shaping the future through groundbreaking science, global influence, and responsible innovation.

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