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Alexander Kolesnikov

Alexander Kolesnikov

AI Researcher

Organization
OpenAI

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Citations92,616
Followers--
Awards0
Publications0
Companies2

Intelligence Briefing

Expertise
Vision TransformersSelf-Supervised RL
Education

BS, — Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD, — ISTA

Operational History

2021

Joined OpenAI

Transitioned to OpenAI to continue research in AI.

career
2015

Joined Google Deepmind

Began working at Google Deepmind focusing on AI research.

career

AGI Position Assessment

Risk Level
LOW
MODERATE
HIGH
CRITICAL
Predicted AGI Timeline

Unknown

Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.

Safety Approach

Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.

Known Associates

D

Demis Hassabis

colleague

Worked together at Google Deepmind.

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I

Ilya Sutskever

colleague

Collaborated at OpenAI.

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A

Andrej Karpathy

colleague

Worked together on AI projects.

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G

Geoffrey Hinton

mentor

Influenced Kolesnikov's research direction.

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Organizational Affiliations

Current

OpenAI

Research Scientist

2021-present

Former

Google Deepmind

Research Scientist

2015-2021

Dossier last updated: 2026-03-04

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