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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
2025-present
Researcher
Previously
2023-present

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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