Mitchell Gordon

Assistant prof @MIT_CSAIL, research @OpenAI. PhD in computer science @Stanford

[Andre Ye @andreiskiii]

Sycophancy, disempowerment, homogenization of thought: lots to be grim about for what AI is doing to us, the collapse of our subjectivity into a machine "objectivity". But a lot of AI's value seems to come precisely from scaling this objectivity. How do we make sense of this?

[Andre Ye @andreiskiii]

“Should I fear death?” Ask an LLM and you get one answer or a big bag, but little visibility into the decisions and assumptions that produced them. We built the "conceptual multiverse": a system that makes those decisions transparent and intervenable. https://t.co/oQlWs0KFHu

[jenny huang @JennyHuang99]

recently, i’ve been thinking about ways to design ai systems to be more compatible with slow thinking 🐌.

you can check out the full blogpost here 🤗:
https://t.co/3hdYCIpuoN

[Lama Ahmad لمى احمد @_lamaahmad]

Last day to apply to the OpenAI safety fellowship! It’s a chance to work with some of my favorite people on some of the most important, interesting, and consequential questions in AI

[Mitchell Gordon @mitchellgordon]

MIT postdoc opportunity! We're hiring a human-AI interaction postdoc (HCI+ML/RL) to train agents that deepen how people think and collaborate - rewarded by how humans actually build skill together. With @arvindsatya1 @ZanaBucinca, me & more! Apply by May 1 https://t.co/1jUhnwwlIx

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, a new program supporting independent research on AI safety and alignment—and the next generation of talent.

https://t.co/vAQKvf8KyO

[Arvind Satyanarayan @arvindsatya1]

🚨MIT Postdoc Opportunity!

We're looking for someone with an HCI+ML/RL background to work with us on agents that promote metacognition and sociality—trained with ethnographic rewards!

w/@mitchellgordon,@zanabucinca & colleagues in sociology+anthropology

https://t.co/hhfpgiv6If

[Mitchell Gordon @mitchellgordon]

MIT postdoc opportunity! We're hiring a human-AI interaction postdoc (HCI+ML/RL) to train agents that deepen how people think and collaborate - rewarded by how humans actually build skill together. With @arvindsatya1 @ZanaBucinca, me & more! Apply by May 1 https://t.co/1jUhnwwlIx

[Lama Ahmad لمى احمد @_lamaahmad]

I’m looking for someone who’s excited to be on the operational end of AI safety research problems. This role sits at the intersection of research and execution: working with academic researchers, 3p evaluators, and internal partners to help shape AI safety in practice.

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

We’re committing $7.5M to @AISecurityInst’s Alignment Project to fund independent research on mitigations for safety and security risks from misaligned AI. https://t.co/PbUoNUcBzY

[Michael Bernstein @msbernst]

Simile on Bloomberg:

https://t.co/sSgrlcgFoz

[Mitchell Gordon @mitchellgordon]

Congrats to the Simile team! Some of the best people I know, working on one of the most interesting problems.

[Simile @simile_ai]

https://t.co/eKKz1ewGex

[Zoë Hitzig @zhitzig]

New on the OpenAI alignment blog!

We prototype a method for eliciting the values that drive preferences over model responses, and release CoVal, an experimental dataset we built with it.

Details in thread 👇

[Yu Ying Chiu (Kelly Chiu) @kellychiuyy]

New paper out with @Scale_AI!
Introducing MoReBench - the first-ever benchmark to evaluate procedural moral reasoning in LLMs. MoReBench focuses on how LLMs reason, not just what they decide.
We reveal surprising gaps in frontier models' moral reasoning that scaling laws & existing benchmarks miss entirely, and encourage more research around CoT monitoring and robust capability building.
This collaboration spanned @UW @nyuniversity @harvard @stanford @mit @cais & more 🧠⚖️

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

✨Tutorial Materials Now Available!
We’re truly grateful for the hundreds (maybe thousands!) of wonderful attendees who joined our #NeurIPS Human–AI Alignment Tutorial 💗 -- Thank you all for your enthusiasm, thoughtful questions, and all the inspiring follow-up conversations 🤗!

As many of you requested during #NeurIPS, we would love to share with you the full tutorial video and all slides below provided by our amazing speakers @mitchellgordon @adamfungi @Yoshua_Bengio:

📺 Tutorial Recording: https://t.co/dYItRlcEEM
📕All Slides: https://t.co/n7AxQuoq1C

We’d also love to hear more of your questions and feedback — and hope these resources spark new ideas and collaborations in Human–AI Alignment research🔥!

[Hua Shen✨ @huashen218]

🚀 Thrilled to announce our upcoming #NeurIPS2025 Tutorial on Human–AI Alignment: Foundations, Methods, Practice, and Challenges!

🗓️ Dec 2, 09:30–12:00 PST
📍 Exhibit Hall F, San Diego Convention Center
🔗 NeurIPS program: https://t.co/dYItRlc6Pe
👉 Tutorial Website: https://t.co/n7AxQunSc4

With an incredible lineup of speakers — @mitchellgordon, @adamfungi, @Yoshua_Bengio — we’ll dive into:
* Human-in-the-loop AI & Value Alignment
* Collective Alignment
* Sociotechnical Evaluation and Oversight
* A Safety Argument for the Scientist AI

🌟 An exceptional interdisciplinary expert panel -- featuring insights from @dawnsongtweets, @eegilbert, @monojitchou, and @hannahrosekirk!

👫 Welcome to join us for an exciting and engaging session — let’s shape the future of Human–AI Alignment together!

#NeurIPS2025 #HAIAlignment #ValueAlignment #CollectiveAlignment #AISafety #ResponsibleAI

[Tyna Eloundou @ThankYourNiceAI]

No single person or institution should define ideal AI behavior for everyone. 

Today, we’re sharing early results from collective alignment, a research effort where we asked the public about how models should behave by default. 

Blog here:
https://t.co/WT9REAznD7

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’ve spent the last few days doing a deep dive on what went wrong with last week’s GPT-4o update in ChatGPT.

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy and the changes we’re going to make in the future:
https://t.co/LX0fSIe72s

[Jane E @janee424]

a bit of a late announcement... I will be starting next year as an assistant professor at @NUSComputing (and am recruiting students!) and just started a postdoc with @landay @StanfordHAI :)

thank you to all of my mentors and friends for the support throughout this journey 💜

[Amy Zhang @amyxzh]

We know it’s a busy time of year ✍️ so we’ve extended the deadline by a few days. Now you have no excuse to not submit a paper to this workshop! 😉