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Aidan McLaughlin

Aidan McLaughlin portrait

Researcher at OpenAI

McLaughlin studies how to scale reinforcement learning and human feedback toward the compute used in pretraining. At OpenAI he helped train several GPT-5 generations; he also created AidanBench to test model creativity and earlier contributed to the open Leela Chess Zero system.

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Background

Current role
Researcher 2025-present
Previously
2023-present
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026