Rohin Shah

Rohin currently works as a Research Scientist on the technical AGI safety team at DeepMind. Prior to DeepMind, Rohin joined CHAI in his fourth year after he became convinced of the importance of building safe, aligned AI. He now thinks about how to provide specifications of good behavior in ways other than reward functions, especially ones that do not require much human effort. In his PhD, he worked on building AI systems that can learn to assist a human user, even if they don’t initially know what the user wants. His general interests in CS are very broad, including AI, machine learning, programming languages, complexity theory, algorithms, and security, and so he started his PhD working on program synthesis.

Rohin writes the Alignment Newsletter, a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment that has over 600 subscribers. You can learn more about his work at his website and by following him on Twitter.