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66 published people
Explore researchers, builders and people shaping alignment's public and social questions. Key figures are an editorial starting selection for the reading routes, not a ranking or a complete history. Read the origins guide.
66 people · Alphabetical by name
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Abhay Sheshadri
Joint lead contributor to a cross-model study of alignment-faking behavior.
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Aengus Lynch
Aengus Lynch is a first author of the simulated insider-threat study.
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Alan Turing
The 1950 imitation game and learning-machine proposal separate recognizing intelligence from teaching useful behavior.
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Alexandra Chouldechova
Research on prediction metrics offers an entry into fairness tradeoffs and institutional use.
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Andreas T. Schmidt
A documented contributor to Longtermist Political Philosophy.
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Anoushka Thakkar
A documented author of Artificial Intelligence in Positive Mental Health.
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Anton Korinek
Anton Korinek is a coauthor of the distinction between operator and social alignment.
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Ashish Vaswani
One of eight authors of the 2017 Transformer paper, with credit shared across architecture, implementation and evaluation.
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Aslıhan Canbul Yaroğlu
A documented author of Who’s in the Mirror.
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Avery Slater
An author interpreting the history of AI and automation.
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Avital Balwit
Avital Balwit is a coauthor of the direct and social alignment governance analysis.
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Benjamin Wright
Benjamin Wright is a coauthor studying harmful agent actions in simulated workplaces.
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Boyuan Chen
A documented contributor to AI Deception: Risks, Dynamics, and Controls.
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Casimir A. Kulikowski
A documented author of Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
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Christoph Durt
A documented author of Large Language Models and the Patterns of Human Language Use.
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Daniel E. Rigobon
A documented author of Collective Good and Optimization in Socioeconomic Systems.
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Daniel Kokotajlo
Signatory of the 2024 Right to Warn letter advocating channels and protections for employees raising AI risk concerns.
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Dario Amodei
Contributions connect concrete accident risks, preference-based reward learning and the challenge of evaluating AI arguments.
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David Manheim
David Manheim coauthored a framework distinguishing statistical, causal and strategic failures of proxy optimization.
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Demis Hassabis
DeepMind founder’s research perspective links ambitions for intelligence with interdisciplinary scientific work.
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Dmitrii Gusev
An author contributing to Investigation into Self-Fulfilling Misalignment in AI Control.
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Evan Hubinger
Coauthor of Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Neural-network researcher whose later public advocacy asks how increasingly capable AI can remain controllable.
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Hafsteinn Einarsson
A documented author of MazeEval.
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Hidetoshi Komatsu
A documented author of Psychiatric Neural Networks and Precision Therapeutics by Machine Learning.
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Hutan Ashrafian
Hutan Ashrafian is an author of a computational interpretation of Rawlsian distributive justice.
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Iason Gabriel
Philosopher whose alignment work connects target selection, plural values and fair principle-selection procedures.
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Inioluwa Deborah Raji
A research and interview route into who audits AI systems and what an audit can establish.
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Iyad Rahwan
Researcher connecting algorithmic oversight with social contracts and stakeholder negotiation.
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Jacob Makar-Limanov
Coauthor of STA-RLHF’s game-theoretic model of feedback training.
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John McCarthy
An early AI researcher associated with Dartmouth, Lisp, and logical knowledge representation.
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Joy Buolamwini
Research and participant testimony connect intersectional audits with public-interest questions about AI's use.
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Julia Angwin
A reporter's investigation and published interview excerpts introduce questions about evidence and algorithmic accountability.
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Kai Greshake
A research entry into the boundary between retrieved information and authorized instructions.
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Karen Huang
An author contributing to Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good.
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Kay Harrison
A documented contributor to Learning Designers and AI.
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Ken Mogi
A documented author of Artificial Intelligence, Human Cognition, and Conscious Supremacy.
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Laura Weidinger
Coauthor of research on impartial AI principle selection and sociotechnical safety evaluation.
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Lewis Hammond
Lead author of Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI.
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Manuel S. Ríos
An author contributing to The Illusion of Rationality.
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Manuel Wörsdörfer
An author interpreting the history of AI and automation.
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Marcin Korecki
Coauthor of a multi-objective preference-aggregation approach to dynamic value alignment.
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Mariana Lins Costa
A documented contributor to Misalignment as Structural Fidelity in LLMs.
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Marija Slavkovik
A contributor to Machine Ethics or AI Alignment?.
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Matteo Cristofaro
A documented author of Surfing the AI Waves.
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Milad Shahvaroughi Farahani
A documented author of Artificial Intelligence and Inequality: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Monte MacDiarmid
Monte MacDiarmid is a core research contributor to the reward-hacking generalization study.
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Norbert Wiener
A 1960 argument about machine purposes and intervention supplies historical context for alignment and control.
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Paul Christiano
Research on learning from human preferences and scalable oversight asks how useful feedback can remain trustworthy as AI becomes more capable.
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Paul Mithun
A documented author of Are LLMs Capable of Achieving Consciousness and AGI?.
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Rishane Dassanayake
Joint first author of a manipulation-risk safety-case framework.
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Robert Williams
A participant's account of wrongful arrest connects facial-recognition evidence with oversight and institutional responsibility.
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Rodrigo Ventura
A documented author of Artificial Emotions.
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Rui A. Pimenta
A documented author of Assessing Consciousness-Related Behaviors Using the Maze Test.
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Ruibo Liu
Coauthor of SANDBOX and Stable Alignment’s simulated-feedback approach.
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Ryan Greenblatt
Research entry point for alignment faking, oversight and the investigation of agent behavior.
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Salvador Santino F. Regilme
A contributor to Artificial Intelligence Colonialism.
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Scott Garrabrant
Scott Garrabrant proposed the earlier four-mechanism classification developed in the joint Goodhart taxonomy paper.
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Shenzhe Zhu
A documented contributor to The Automated but Risky Game.
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Stuart Russell
AI researcher whose work spans reward learning, cooperative assistance models, beneficial-AI research priorities and public risk advocacy.
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Teun van der Weij
Coauthor of AI Sandbagging and researcher on reinforcement-learning dynamics.
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Timnit Gebru
A research entry point into intersectional performance audits and the limits of aggregate accuracy.
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Vafa Ghazavi
Coauthor of The Challenge of Value Alignment, connecting AI safety with plural social values.
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Valerie E. Black
A documented author of De-humanizing Care.
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Yarin Gal
A research entry point into uncertainty over language-model answers and the limits of confidence signals.