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Jacob Steinhardt
ROLE FOUNDER AND CEOMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
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Jacob Steinhardt is an Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley and the co-founder and CEO of Transluce, a nonprofit AI research lab focused on building open technology for understanding AI systems. His research focuses on AI safety, robustness, and alignment, and he is known for co-authoring the research roadmap Concrete Problems in AI Safety and designing the MMLU benchmark for measuring AI capabilities. He previously completed his PhD at Stanford under Percy Liang and worked at OpenAI.
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mention·StrictlyVC·SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
“'We need to hold this technology to at least the same standards we hold other high-risk scientific research to,' said Jacob Steinhardt.”
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