Marina Favaro — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Leads The Anthropic Institute at Anthropic, a function dedicated to advancing the public conversation around powerful AI systems.
Focuses on characterizing AI R&D progress and its implications for governance.
Built Anthropic's national security policy function, including partnerships with defense and intelligence agencies to evaluate frontier AI systems.
Holds postgraduate degrees in international security and applied machine learning.

Biography

Marina Favaro is the Lead at The Anthropic Institute, a new function within Anthropic. In this role, she focuses on advancing the public conversation around powerful AI systems, characterizing AI R&D progress, and its implications for governance.

Before leading The Anthropic Institute, Favaro spent over three years building Anthropic's national security policy function. Her work included establishing partnerships with defense and intelligence agencies to evaluate frontier AI systems.