David Orr is a Board Member of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and served as the chair from 2018 to 2022. During his tenure, he guided the Foundation through the challenges of COVID-19 and helped shape its refreshed mission, vision, and values.

He is currently the Head of Safeguards at Anthropic, where he leads the Safeguards team and is responsible for building protections for the company’s AI assistant, Claude, that keep its users safe and resistant to misuse.

Previously Dave was a Director of Engineering for Google DeepMind where he focused on aligning transformative AI systems with human values and ethics. He also spent more than a decade at Google, working to redefine how people interact with technology and computing.

Earlier in his career, Dave was a startup founder, an angel investor, a computer software engineer, a researcher working on internet search, and a director of technology for startups. He has published in the fields of linguistics and computer science.

Dave holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.