Andrew Lampinen

@AndrewLampinen

Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. MTS at @AnthropicAI. Previously @DeepMind, cognitive science @StanfordPsych. Tweets are mine.

lampinen.github.io

Joined November 2019

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Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
Dec 16, 2025
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a new substack (link below) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
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Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
Nov 4
If you're an academic (in a broad range of fields) or industry researcher who wants to explore working on making helpful and reliable AI, this is a great opportunity!
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Nov 2
Applications are now open for the Anthropic Residency, a paid, fixed-term research program for academics, technical founders, and staff-level engineers who want to make AI safe and beneficial for everyone. No ML background is required. Apply by November 22:
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Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
Oct 18
Framing tweet is a bit overblown imo, but this is a fun case study on slightly changing computation order -> numerical differences -> learnable signal
Sauers
@Sauers_
Oct 18
Language models can learn to detect when you read their activations. How? 🧵
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Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
Oct 13
Indeed. I'll point to a few papers that suggest why this isn't a problem (and in fact can be beneficial) below:
Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Oct 13
The answer here is that people close to frontier development never thought the garbage in garbage out problem was a real problem. I would ask them and they'd shrug and say 'we'll figure it out with synthetic data or something'.
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Andrew Lampinen
@AndrewLampinen
Oct 10
New blog post! I wrote about why I think it's useful to use metaphorical (and anthropomorphic) terms to describe AI. I start by describing the role of metaphor in language and cognition, and how metaphors can help us to efficiently understand relations and make predictions 1/2
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