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Research and Writing​​

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​The Battle for Better Air, Asimov Press, 2025. A history of the technology and policies that led to improved indoor air quality.

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Convening During Covid-19: lessons learnt from organizing virtual workshops in 2020, aXiv, 2020. An overview of the remote workshop design process behind the 2020 WiML Un-Workshop, which I helped run.

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The Loom and the Thresher: Lessons in Technological Worker Displacement, Medium, 2019. An essay on insights from history for the potential economic impacts of AI.

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See also my Substack which has more recent writing.

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Program Management​​​​​​​​​

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In close partnership with an OpenAI founder, I led the creation of the OpenAI Scholars program and the OpenAI Fellows program. Whereas the OpenAI Scholars program focused on creating training pathways for researchers from underrepresented demographic backgrounds, the OpenAI Fellows program focused on training researchers to shift from different disciplinary backgrounds (e.g., physics).

 

Alums of these programs have gone on to make foundational contributions to AI research, including (non-exhaustively) the development of scaling laws for language models, music generation systems like Jukebox and MuseNet, and the GSM8K dataset. Alums have also cofounded companies such as Anthropic and Exa and one currently leads a team at OpenAI.

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Links on the OpenAI Scholars program during my tenure:

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• OpenAI Scholars 

• OpenAI Scholars Class of 18 intro​

• OpenAI Scholars final presentations 

• OpenAI Scholars finale ​

• Scholars Winter 2019 announcement ​

• OpenAI Scholars interview

• Coverage in Synced Review

 

Links on the OpenAI Fellows program during my tenure:​

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• OpenAI Fellows Winter 2019 announcement

• OpenAI Fellows initial announcement

• HackerNoon interview with Christine Payne, OpenAI Fellow

• VentureBeat article on the related "Spinning up in RL" release​

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​Media Production​​

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I'm currently producing a documentary (Staying In, Helping Out), which interviews people who launched innovative projects during the COVID-19 pandemic and saved many lives as a result. I also currently advise Eleos AI on their communications.

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At OpenAI, I produced several kinds of media content:

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• OpenAI Five Benchmark - I produced a large-scale publicity event and demonstration match for OpenAI Five, which had more than 80,000 concurrent viewers (see shout-out at  57:37).

• OpenAI Five - For the final match, I produced this video, in collaboration with the Dota team. Related videos have been viewed over a million times.

• Learning Dexterity - I produced and edited the sound for this release.

• OpenAI Scholars final presentations - I ran the event and produced the video for Scholars Demo Day 2018. 

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​Technical Contributions​

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Working in Python and Lua and contributing over 5,000 lines of code, I helped to create the Gym Retro dataset. This dataset made 1,116 retro videogames ready for use in reinforcement learning training, and remains the largest dataset of its kind. The dataset can be found on GitHub here.