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Researcher
Kai (Cathy) Chen
OpenAIHead of Alignment
Chen leads alignment research at OpenAI, working on how increasingly capable models can remain responsive to human intent. She has contributed to frontier reasoning systems including deep research, which combines web search and multi-step analysis to produce documented answers to complex questions.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2023-presentHead of Alignment
OpenAI2023-presentPreviously
Education
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