person
Sebastian Ruder
Cohere; ex-Google; NLP transfer learning
Researcher at Cohere; previously at Google. His 2018 'NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived' essay coined widely-used framing for transfer learning in NLP.
current Research Scientist, Cohere
past Researcher, Google Research
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues the field's coverage of low-resource languages is a structural safety issue, billions of speakers are excluded from frontier evaluation and alignment work.
If a language has no representation in the pretraining corpus, no representation in the evaluation suite, and no native speakers in the alignment loop, every safety claim about a 'multilingual' model is on shaky ground.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.