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Steven Adler

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Co-founder & Chief Scientist at Guidelight AI StandardsFellow at Roots of Progress Institute

Steven Adler studies how frontier AI systems affect society and how labs can govern their deployment. After leading product-safety and dangerous-capability evaluation work at OpenAI, he co-founded Guidelight to turn safety principles into standards that companies can be assessed against.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder & Chief Scientist May 2026-present
Fellow 2025-present
Previously
2020-2024AI Safety and Governance,
2018-2020Chief of Staff,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 28, 2026

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launchSteven Adler and Page Hedley launch Guidelight AI Standards

The former OpenAI safety leaders launched an independent nonprofit that turns frontier-AI safety principles into concrete standards and public company assessments.

May 19, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2630,77424,43018,086Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
30,774citations as of Jun 15, '26+12,688 since Aug 25, '25
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