---
title: Alex Tamkin
type: entity
tags: [researcher, ai, anthropic, societal-impact, clio]
affiliation: Anthropic
sources: ["[[sources/2026-shen-ai-skill-formation]]", "[[sources/2026-shen-anthropic-coding-skills-post]]", "[[sources/2025-handa-which-economic-tasks-ai]]"]
created: 2026-04-20
updated: 2026-04-20
---

# Alex Tamkin

Researcher at **Anthropic** working on AI societal impact and real-world usage measurement. Author of the Clio privacy-preserving conversation analysis system (Tamkin et al. 2024, *(referenced-not-ingested)*) used across Anthropic's Economic Index line of work.

Recurring author in this wiki — serves as a bridge between Anthropic's platform-usage research ([[sources/2025-handa-which-economic-tasks-ai]]) and its causal skill-formation research ([[sources/2026-shen-ai-skill-formation]]).

## Contributions in this wiki
- [[sources/2026-shen-ai-skill-formation]] — co-author, skill formation RCT (2026).
- [[sources/2026-shen-anthropic-coding-skills-post]] — co-author, research blog companion.
- [[sources/2025-handa-which-economic-tasks-ai]] — co-author, Anthropic Economic Index launch paper.

## Related
Co-authors: [[entities/judy-hanwen-shen]], [[entities/kunal-handa]], [[entities/esin-durmus]]. Related hubs: [[concepts/ai-adoption]], [[concepts/ai-skill-formation]].