person
Alex Irpan
Google Brain alumnus; Sorta Insightful blog
Former Google Brain RL researcher and ML educator whose Sorta Insightful blog has long been a thoughtful inside-view voice on RL and AI safety.
current Researcher, Google
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeInside-view RL researcher who has written sceptically on RL hype, then carefully on RLHF, and now on the implications of reasoning models.
Deep reinforcement learning doesn't yet work. We need to be honest about that even when we are excited about the wins.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.