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Researcher
Aidan McLaughlin
OpenAIResearcher
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.
Career & education
Current role
OpenAI2025-presentResearcher
OpenAI2025-presentPreviously
Topology Research Corporation2023-present
Education
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Miami University