Irene Solaiman is an American artificial intelligence and public policy researcher. She has served as the head of global policy at

Hugging Face Hugging Face, Inc. is a French-American company based in List of tech companies in the New York metropolitan area, New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. It is most notable for its Transf ...

since 2022. She was previously a researcher at

OpenAI OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines ...

where she was the first person to test for social-impact bias on

large language model A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. The largest and most capable LLMs are g ...

Life

Solaiman obtained her education from the

Harvard Kennedy School The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is the school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School offers master's de ...

getting a master's in public policy and before that a bachelor's in international relations from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. In 2019, Solaiman was an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and served as a public policy manager at

. While there, she worked on

GPT-2 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) is a large language model by OpenAI and the second in their foundational series of Generative pre-trained transformer, GPT models. GPT-2 was pre-trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. It was par ...

and

GPT-3 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a large language model released by OpenAI in 2020. Like its predecessor, GPT-2, it is a decoder-only transformer model of deep neural network, which supersedes recurrence and convolution-based ...

. Of Bangladeshi descent, Solaiman tested the

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

on the GPT language models. She was the first person to test for social- impact bias on

s. She was later an AI policy manager at

Zillow Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spen ...

for almost a year. In April 2022, Solaiman became the head of global policy at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solaiman, Irene Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American artificial intelligence researchers 21st-century American women scientists Women systems scientists OpenAI people American people of Bangladeshi descent Hugging Face people University of Maryland, College Park alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni