MH Tessler 🇺🇦
@mhtessler
research scientist @GoogleDeepMind. previously MIT, Stanford. interested in society, language, humans, and coffee. enjoying living in the 🇬🇧
I am really beyond words to be able to share with the world what @bakkermichiel, @summerfieldlab, and I and a truly world-class team @GoogleDeepMind worked on for the past 2 years. Out today in @ScienceMagazine, “AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation”
New paper alert from @GoogleDeepMind! 🚨 We've put LLMs to the test as writing co-pilots – how good are they really at helping us write? LLMs are increasingly used for open-ended tasks like writing assistance, but how do we assess their effectiveness? 🤔 arxiv.org/abs/2503.19711
Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment 🥞 A research program dedicated to co-aligning AI systems *and* institutions with what people value. It's the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken. Here's what we're doing: 🧵
🚨 I’m hosting a Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind! Join us on the Autonomous Assistants team (led by @egrefen ) to explore multi-agent communication—how agents learn to interact, coordinate, and solve tasks together. DM me for details!
Going beyond demographics to model individual variation in human judgments for AI alignment. Very happy to see this great work by Taylor reach the outside!
🤔🤖Most AI systems assume there’s just one right answer—but many tasks have reasonable disagreement. How can we better model human variation? 🌍✨ We propose modeling at the individual-level using open-ended, textual value profiles! 🗣️📝 arxiv.org/abs/2503.15484 (1/?)
woooooo! Out in Child Development: "Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children" paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd… preprint: tomerullman.org/papers/kids_lo…
Very interesting demonstration of using AI for peace. Incredible effort
Can AI help find common ground during active, real-world conflicts? We worked with @ALLMEP to find common ground between Israeli & Palestinian peacebuilders after Oct 7 2023 using an iterative deliberative process combining LLMs, bridging algorithms, and collective dialogues 🧵
Even if you’re just thinking of changing priorities, I believe you should signal.
We're hiring! Join an elite team that sets an AGI safety approach for all of Google -- both through development and implementation of the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF), and through research that enables a future stronger FSF.
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Want to join one of the best AI safety teams in the world? We're hiring @GoogleDeepMind! We have open positions for research engineers and research scientists in the AGI Safety & Alignment and Gemini Safety teams. Locations: London, Zurich, New York, Mountain View and SF
Are you worried about risks from AGI and want to mitigate them? Come work with me and my colleagues! We're hiring on the AGI Safety & Alignment team (ASAT) and the Gemini Safety team! Research Engineers: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… Research Scientists: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…
Big thanks to @bakkermichiel and @mhtessler for this great work! This is a fantastic example of how AI can help humans find common ground in controversial political and socio-economic topics! Check out the main talk 👇
human-AI collaboration skills useful for amplified oversight in alignment <3 deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/human-ai-compl…
Excellent work bridging cogsci/HCI and AI safety and alignment @GoogleDeepMind
How do we ensure humans can still effectively oversee increasingly powerful AI systems? In our blog, we argue that achieving Human-AI complementarity is an underexplored yet vital piece of this puzzle! And, it’s hard, but we achieved it. 🧵(1/10)
Sat with Ted Chiang at @NeurIPSConf lunch ytd & someone in AI brought up democratizing art-making. It was a candid chat so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" used this way. Just say "automating art-making." It’s more accurate. 1/
Join us for the @buZZrobot in-person talk next week to learn about the amazing work of @mhtessler and @bakkermichiel on training an AI mediator. Almost 6,000 participants preferred AI-generated statements, finding them more informative, clear, and unbiased. This incredible work…
If you're interested in a PhD at the intersection of machine learning and programming languages, consider Yale CS! We're exploring new ways to build software that draws inferences & makes predictions. See alexlew.net & apply at gsas.yale.edu/admissions/ by Dec. 15 😃
I am hiring for RS/RE positions! If you are interested in language-flavored multimodal learning, evaluation, or post-training apply here 🦎 boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… I will also be #NeurIPS2024 so come say hi! (Please email me to find time to chat)
Hi! I'm hiring a Research Engineer to join my team at Google DeepMind for the year. You'd be working with a great, interdisciplinary team on AI evals. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… Note: this is a fixed-term, 12 month position
The computational cognitive science starter kit.
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…