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Researcher
Alex Beutel
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff, Tech Lead, Manager (Safety Research)
Beutel develops ways to make widely used AI models safer. He co-authored Deliberative Alignment, which teaches models to reason through safety rules,[1] and contributed to the launches of GPT-4o, o1 and GPT-5.[2] His earlier work improved recommendation systems and detected coordinated online fraud.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAIJun 2023-presentMember of Technical Staff, Tech Lead, Manager (Safety Research)
OpenAIJun 2023-presentPreviously
GoogleAug 2016-Jun 2023Research Scientist; later Senior Staff Research Scientist, Tech Lead, Manager
GoogleAug 2016-Jun 2023Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations29,278As of Oct 29, '26
References
- Deliberative Alignmentarxiv.org
Co-author and method that teaches models to reason about safety policies.
- Alex Beutel personal websitealexbeutel.com
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