People
People in safety and alignment
63 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list safety and alignment as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Adam Gleave
Co-founder and CEO (since January 2022), FAR.AI
Co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI; researcher on adversarial robustness and reward learning
Ajeya Cotra
Technical Staff, METR
METR technical staff working on threat modeling and risk assessment; lead of METR's 2026 Frontier Risk Report
Aleksandra Mojsilović
Head of Trustworthy Machine Intelligence and IBM Fellow (as described by IBM Research in February 2023), IBM Research
Led Trustworthy Machine Intelligence at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets
Amanda Askell
Leads Anthropic's Character work (finetuning and AI alignment), Anthropic
Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution
Anca Dragan
Heads AI Safety and Alignment (on leave from UC Berkeley), Google DeepMind
Heads AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind; UC Berkeley associate professor who runs the InterACT Lab
Arthur Conmy
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Anthropic Member of Technical Staff; former Google DeepMind senior research engineer; ACDC first author
Aylin Caliskan
Associate Professor, The Information School; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (courtesy), University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor studying bias, safety, and societal impacts of AI
Ben Mann
Co-founder, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder; co-author of the GPT-3 paper and of Anthropic's RLHF and Constitutional AI papers
Beth Barnes
Founder and CEO, METR
Founder and CEO of METR, a research nonprofit that evaluates the autonomous capabilities of frontier AI models
Chris Olah
Co-founder, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder working on reverse engineering neural networks; previously led interpretability at OpenAI
Collin Burns
Worked at OpenAI, OpenAI
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research
Dan Hendrycks
Executive & Research Director, Center for AI Safety
Executive and Research Director of the Center for AI Safety; co-author of MMLU and Humanity's Last Exam
David Stutz
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at DeepMind; first author of the SynthID Bio protein watermarking paper
Diogo Almeida
Founder and CEO, TypeSafe AI
Founder and CEO of TypeSafe AI; co-author of OpenAI's InstructGPT paper on training with human feedback
Duen Horng "Polo" Chau
Professor and Associate Chair, School of Computational Science and Engineering; Associate Director, MS in Analytics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech professor whose Polo Club of Data Science created Transformer Explainer and CNN Explainer
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research
Eric Michael Smith
Research Scientist (the page's bio describes a Research Engineer role at FAIR), Meta
Research scientist at Meta; first author of HolisticBias and a core contributor to Llama 3
Ethan Perez
Researcher, Anthropic
Anthropic safety researcher; co-author of the RAG, red-teaming, and Constitutional Classifiers work
Evan Hubinger
Alignment Stress-Testing lead, Anthropic
Alignment Stress-Testing lead at Anthropic; first author of the Sleeper Agents paper
Francesca Rossi
IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; IBM Fellow, IBM Research
IBM Fellow and IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; past president of AAAI and IJCAI
Harold Booth
Computer Scientist, Software Security Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST computer scientist in the Software Security Group; co-author of the Dioptra AI test platform
Helen Toner
Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
Executive Director of Georgetown's CSET and author of the Rising Tide newsletter on advanced AI
Hjalmar Wijk
Chief Scientist, METR
Chief Scientist at METR, working on threat modeling; first author of the RE-Bench AI R&D evaluation
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023), Google DeepMind
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
Ian R. McKenzie
Research Engineer (since September 2025), Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research engineer; lead author of the Inverse Scaling paper and FAR.AI's STACK study
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.; co-author of the CLIP, Whisper and GPT-3 papers at OpenAI
Jack Clark
Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; writes the Import AI newsletter
Jacob Steinhardt
Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley associate professor of Statistics and EECS; founder and CEO of the nonprofit lab Transluce
James Glasbrenner
Principal AI Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
MITRE Principal AI Engineer; first-listed author of NIST's Dioptra AI test platform
Jan Leike
Leads the Alignment Science team, Anthropic
Leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic; formerly co-led Superalignment at OpenAI
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer; first author of the 2020 scaling-laws paper
Kai Fronsdal
Research Engineer (joined 2026), Meridian Labs
Research engineer at Meridian Labs and lead author of Petri, the open-source alignment auditing tool
Karl Berzins
Co-founder, President and board member, FAR.AI
Co-founder and President of FAR.AI, an AI safety research nonprofit
Kenneth Li
Researcher, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers
Kush R. Varshney
IBM Fellow, directing Human-Centered Trustworthy AI research, IBM Research
IBM Fellow directing trustworthy AI research at IBM; team behind AI Fairness 360 and Granite Guardian
Lila Ibrahim
Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind
Chief AI Readiness Officer at Google DeepMind; the lab's first Chief Operating Officer
Maarten Sap
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute (courtesy appointment in HCII), Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor and part-time senior research scientist at Ai2; co-author of SOTOPIA
Margaret Mitchell
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; first author of Model Cards for Model Reporting
Marius Hobbhahn
CEO and Co-founder, Apollo Research
CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research, working on AI model evaluations; former Epoch research fellow
Mark Russinovich
Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
CTO and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure; creator of Sysinternals
Mathias Lechner
Co-founder and CTO, Liquid AI
Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI; first author of the Neural Circuit Policies paper
Michael Hind
Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research; co-author of AI Fairness 360, AIX360 and FactSheets
Neel Nanda
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team, Google DeepMind
Runs the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; creator of the TransformerLens library
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist, Anthropic
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Oliver Zhang
Co-founder and Managing Director, Center for AI Safety
Co-founder and Managing Director of the Center for AI Safety; co-founder of the MATS program
Owain Evans
Director, Truthful AI
Director of the nonprofit Truthful AI and affiliate researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley; TruthfulQA co-author
Paul Christiano
Executive Director, Alignment Research Center
Executive director of the Alignment Research Center and technical advisor at NIST's CAISI
Peter Mattson
Founder, President and board member, MLCommons
Founder and President of MLCommons and founding General Chair of MLPerf; senior staff engineer at Google
Saadia Gabriel
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA assistant professor studying factuality, intent, and harm in language; former NYU and MIT fellow
Samuel Marks
Member of Technical Staff; leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam of the Alignment Science team, Anthropic
Leads the Cognitive Oversight subteam at Anthropic; first author of a study on auditing hidden objectives
Samuel R. Bowman
Technical AI safety researcher, Anthropic
Technical AI safety researcher at Anthropic; NYU associate professor on leave; co-author of Petri
Shane Legg
Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind
Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist of Google DeepMind; leads its AGI Safety Council
Shengjia Zhao
Chief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025), Meta Superintelligence Labs
Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; earlier a contributor to GPT-4 and OpenAI o1
Stephen Casper
Assistant Professor; Faculty Affiliate with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor working on AI safeguards, incidents, and governance
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Computational Precision Health, Emeritus; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science; co-author of AI, A Modern Approach
Su Lin Blodgett
Independent visiting researcher, Mila
Researcher on the social implications and evaluation of NLP; formerly at Microsoft Research
Terry Yue Zhuo
Research lead; founded the Qwen Cyber team, Alibaba Qwen
Lead author of the BigCodeBench code-generation benchmark; former research lead at Alibaba Qwen
Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute
Founder and executive director of DAIR; first author of Datasheets for Datasets
Wojciech Zaremba
Head of AI Resilience, OpenAI Foundation
OpenAI co-founder; Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI, Stanford University
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
Yulia Tsvetkov
Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
Zico Kolter
Professor and Department Head, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; chairs OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee
Zvi Mowshowitz
Writer, Don't Worry About the Vase
Writer of Don't Worry About the Vase, a Substack centered on weekly AI updates
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