Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab
John Schulman is a co-founder and chief scientist at Thinking Machines Lab.
How media typically covers John Schulman
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John Schulman as author
Over 300,000 stress-test scenarios reveal that frontier language models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI prioritize values differently and expose thousands of hidden contradictions and ambiguities in model specifications.
“Author of "Stress-Testing Model Specs Reveals Character Differences Among Language Models" in Anthropic”
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“Signed Pacing the Frontier letter from frontier AI company employees”
“Conducted research on model specifications and character differences in language models.”
“An OpenAI cofounder who left the company this year to join Anthropic and boost his focus on safe AI.”
“Commented on the distinction between automated and rubric-based grading in RLVR tasks and their alignment implications.”
“Former OpenAI co-founder and RLHF researcher examining bottlenecks in recursive self-improvement on roundtable panel.”
“Chief scientist at Thinking Machines and co-founder of OpenAI who led RLHF work on ChatGPT, discussed AI capabilities and alignment challenges.”
“OpenAI cofounder and now chief scientist at Thinking Machines called for OpenAI and Anthropic to collaborate on pacing proposal.”
“Noted open research questions about multi-agent training and cooperation that cannot be studied without transparency about training recipes.”
“OpenAI cofounder and alignment lead who left in August for Anthropic, a rival firm founded by earlier departing safety staff.”
“John Schulman left OpenAI in August as part of the wave of departures from the company.”
“Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement calling for US government support to pace frontier AI development.”
“Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines who signed petition requesting government tools to coordinate and pace AI development.”
“Thinking Machines chief scientist who signed the open letter supporting coordination to pace frontier AI development.”
“Signed a statement with other AI industry leaders calling for government regulation of automated AI development.”
“Former OpenAI researcher now at Thinking Machines Lab working on interaction models.”
“Reviewed drafts of the Chroma Context-1 research work.”