Steven Adler

Steven is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Guidelight AI Standards, where he leads the development of our standards and assessments. For nearly a decade, Steven has worked to make the development of powerful AI go better for the world, including at OpenAI, where he worked from 2020 to 2024, leading teams like product safety and dangerous capability evaluations.

Steven is also a Fellow of the Roots of Progress Institute and the author of the newsletter Clear-Eyed AI. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an AB in Economics from Brown.

Disclosure: Steven continues to hold a portion of equity that he vested while working at OpenAI.