Thomas Woodside

Thomas is a rising junior undergraduate at Yale University, studying computer science. Previously, Thomas has completed internships in machine learning research and engineering at Kiva, NASA, and a security startup. At CHAI, he will be working with Scott Emmons, researching safe exploration and natural language constraints for reinforcement learning. Thomas is interested in the question of how to make AI more beneficial for humanity, and hopes that his internship will help him develop skills and knowledge to help answer that question. At Yale, Thomas has been involved with running AI Safety reading groups to raise awareness of the issue, and also helps lead Yale Effective Altruism.