person
Edward Grefenstette
Google DeepMind; AI for science research
DeepMind senior research scientist focused on language and reasoning. Previously co-led Cohere for AI's research arm; long-time NLP researcher.
current Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
past Director of Research, Cohere for AI
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues research on reasoning and language understanding is essential before scaling can be considered safe; views capability research as inseparable from how alignment problems are framed.
We don't yet know how to robustly characterize what these models understand versus what they confabulate. That gap is the root of many alignment problems.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.