person
Karina Nguyen
Anthropic; ex-OpenAI; product research
Anthropic researcher who has led work on user-facing AI assistants; previously at OpenAI working on ChatGPT product research.
current Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
past Researcher, OpenAI
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues product-grounded research, how users actually use frontier AI in practice, surfaces alignment problems that pure benchmark studies miss.
When you watch real users interact with AI assistants, the alignment failures that show up are not the ones laboratory benchmarks are designed to catch. The friction is in the texture of conversation.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.