Researcher/CSO, Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI)

Adam Tauman Kalai is now a researcher at the new Institute for Responsible Superintelligence. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at OpenAI, specializing in AI safety and ethics. His research interests also include algorithms, fairness, AI theory, game theory, and crowdsourcing. Adam earned his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, after which he served as an Assistant Professor at TTIC and Georgia Tech and a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He is also a member of Project CETI’s science team. His work has been recognized by test of time and best paper awards, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and most notably the Majulook Prize.
Theoretical alignment, new safe-by-design approaches to AI safety, CS complexity theory that applies to AI
I have mentored dozens of graduate students in machine learning, theoretical computer science, AI safety, and other areas. Many of them have gone on to become top researchers and professors at OpenAI, Stanford, MIT, etc. I also started the OpenAI safety fellowship program.