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Kai (Cathy) Chen

Kai (Cathy) Chen portrait

Head of Alignment at OpenAI

🇨🇦 Canadian

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.

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Background

Current role
Head of Alignment 2023-present
Previously
2020-2023Founder and CEO,
2017-2019Engineering,
2016-2016Software Engineer,
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Last editorial review: September 6, 2026