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#94ResearcherAI Safety & Alignment
Anca Dragan
Google DeepMind
Specialties
RoboticsAI Safety
Location
Romania/USA
Education
BS, MIT; PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University.
Links & Profiles
Biography
Director at Google DeepMind. Former UC Berkeley professor. Pioneer of AI alignment through human-robot interaction.
馃挕 My Take
Dragan approaches alignment from the physical world, how do robots learn human preferences through interaction? Her work bridges the gap between theoretical alignment and practical robot safety. It's a perspective often missing from the LLM-dominated safety conversation.
Key Influence
Advancing human-compatible AI through interactive robot learning and value alignment
Awards & Recognition
CMU professor, human-robot interaction pioneer