person
Christopher Manning
Stanford NLP director; foundation models
Stanford professor of computer science and linguistics; director of the Stanford AI Lab. Co-led the Center for Research on Foundation Models. Author of the 'Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing' (1999) and 'Speech and Language Processing' (with Jurafsky).
current Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Machine Learning, Stanford University; Director, Stanford AI Lab; Co-Director, Stanford CRFM
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeEndorses 'foundation models' as the operative frame for current and future AI systems; engages with safety as integral to that frame, not as a separable add-on.
“We define foundation models as models trained on broad data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks, and these models entail both new capabilities and new risks.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.