person
David D. Cox
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab director
Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; previously a Harvard professor of molecular and cellular biology. Bridge figure between academic and corporate AI research.
current IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; VP, AI Models, IBM Research
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues academic-industrial collaboration is necessary for safety research to keep pace with frontier capabilities; runs MIT-IBM as a model for that arrangement.
Frontier AI research has to be a partnership between academia and industry. Neither has the full set of capabilities to navigate where this is going alone.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.