Brown University
Georgia Tech
Page HedleyCo-founder & CEO · Guidelight AI StandardsFounder↗Both at Guidelight AI Standards
Researcher · Founder · Policy
Steven Adler
Guidelight AI StandardsCo-founder & Chief Scientist
Roots of Progress InstituteFellow
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.
Career & education
Current rolesGuidelight AI StandardsMay 2026-presentCo-founder & Chief ScientistRoots of Progress Institute2025-presentFellow
Guidelight AI StandardsMay 2026-presentRoots of Progress Institute2025-presentPreviously
OpenAI2020-2024AI Safety and Governance
Partnership on AI2018-2020Chief of Staff
OpenAI2020-2024Partnership on AI2018-2020Education
Work 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.
citations30,774As of Jun 15, '26
citations+12,688Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman, Diogo Almeida and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
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