Ryn Linthicum

Ryn Linthicum is the head of user well-being policy at Anthropic, where they lead a team focused on child safety, mental health, human trafficking, and adult content. Their work combines academic research with practical product policy implementation to prevent the harmful misuse of frontier AI models. Ryn’s approach is informed by their background expertise in suicide and self-harm, child development, and machine learning. Prior to joining Anthropic, they led the global issue policy team for mental health at TikTok. Ryn holds a master of science degree in clinical psychology from Florida State University.