Misha Laskin

Co-Founder & CEO, Reflection AI

Organization
Reflection AI

Position
Co-Founder & CEO, Reflection AI

🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian-American

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Intelligence Briefing

Co-founded Reflection AI in 2024 to pursue superintelligence through autonomous coding. Previously staff research scientist at Google DeepMind where he led reward modeling for Gemini 1 and 1.5. Pivoted from quantum physics to AI after reading the AlphaGo paper. Postdoc at UC Berkeley under Pieter Abbeel. Co-authored the Decision Transformer paper.

Expertise

Reinforcement LearningReward ModelingAutonomous CodingSuperintelligenceEx-DeepMind

Education

BA, Physics and Literature — Yale University

PhD, Theoretical Many-Body Quantum Physics — University of Chicago

AGI Position Assessment

Risk Level

LOW

MODERATE

HIGH

CRITICAL

Predicted AGI Timeline

Unknown

Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.

Safety Approach

Primarily research-focused public profile; no detailed standalone safety doctrine is documented here.

Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10

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