AGI Strategies

person

Mark Chen

OpenAI Chief Research Officer

Chief Research Officer at OpenAI; previously SVP of Research, Frontiers. Lead author of the original Codex paper that became the foundation of GitHub Copilot.

current Chief Research Officer, OpenAI
@markchen90

Strategy positions

Race to aligned SIendorses

Build aligned superintelligence first, before adversaries

Argues OpenAI's mission requires being at the frontier of capabilities; oversees the research organization and emphasizes deployment-coupled safety practice.

“We evaluate Codex on a new evaluation set we release to measure functional correctness for synthesizing programs from docstrings.”
§ paperEvaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code· arXiv / OpenAI· 2021-07· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Mark Chen's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Alex Karp

    Alex Karp

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Palantir

  • Alex Wang

    Alex Wang

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of Scale AI; data infrastructure for frontier models

  • Carl Shulman

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Phil senior research analyst; AGI takeoff economics

  • Daniel Eth

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Foresight Institute alignment researcher

  • Eric Schmidt

    Eric Schmidt

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former Google CEO; AI national security advocate

  • Jakub Pachocki

    Jakub Pachocki

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI Chief Scientist (since 2024)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.