Adam Tauman Kalai

Adam Tauman Kalai
Education
FatherEhud Kalai
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Workplaces
ThesisProbabilistic and on-line methods in machine learning (2001)
Avrim Blum
Other academic advisors
Santosh Vempala
Websitekal.ai

Adam Tauman Kalai is an American computer scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence. He was a researcher at OpenAI from 2023 to 2026 and is a cofounder of the Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI).[1][2]

Education and career

Kalai graduated from Harvard University in 1996 with a BA in computer science and received a MA and PhD, both in computer science, from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 and 2001, respectively.[3] His doctoral advisor was Avrim Blum. After graduation, Kalai did his postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Santosh Vempala until 2003.[4] Kalai became a faculty member at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago from 2003 to 2006,[5] followed by a stint as an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2008. He joined Microsoft Research in 2008[6][7] and subsequently moved to OpenAI in 2023.[1][8] In 2026, he left OpenAI to cofound the Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI).[2]

Contributions

Kalai is known for his algorithm for generating random factored numbers (see Bach's algorithm), for co-inventing the cooperative-competitive value (coco value), for efficiently learning learning mixtures of Gaussians, for the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman algorithm for learning parity with noise, and for the intractability of the folk theorem in game theory.

In 2016 Kalai was co-author on a widely cited paper on identifying and reducing gender bias in word embeddings, which are a representation of words commonly used in AI systems.[7][9][10] In 2026, he coauthored a Nature paper on hallucinations in large language models.[11]

Personal life

Kalai is the son of game theorist Ehud Kalai and is married to cryptographer Yael Tauman Kalai.[12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 Levy, Steven (January 5, 2024), "In Defense of AI Hallucinations", Wired, retrieved March 19, 2024
  2. 1 2 "Institute for Responsible Superintelligence". Institute for Responsible Superintelligence. Retrieved August 26, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Adam Kalai: Curriculum Vitae". www.cs.cmu.edu. Archived from the original on September 14, 2024.
  4. ↑ "TTIC Tenth Anniversary Symposium". www.ttic.edu.
  5. ↑ "TTIC Faculty Alumni". www.ttic.edu.
  6. ↑ "Invited Speakers", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 683 (1) 011004, 2016, Bibcode:2016JPhCS.683a1004., doi:10.1088/1742-6596/683/1/011004, retrieved January 28, 2019
  7. 1 2 Pinkerton, Byrd (August 12, 2016), "He's Brilliant, She's Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist", NPR, retrieved January 28, 2019
  8. ↑ "Adam Tauman Kalai", Adam Kalai, retrieved March 19, 2024
  9. ↑ Gholipour, Bahar (March 10, 2017), "Algorithms Learn From Us, and We Can Be Better Teachers", NBC, retrieved September 1, 2019
  10. ↑ Bolukbasi, Tolga; Chang, Kai-Wei; Zou, James; Saligrama, Venkatesh; Kalai, Adam T (2016). "Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. Curran Associates, Inc.
  11. ↑ Kalai, Adam Tauman; Nachum, Ofir; Vempala, Santosh S.; Zhang, Edwin (April 22, 2026). "Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations". Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10549-w. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  12. ↑ Knies, Rob (May 14, 2009), "New England Researcher Finds Her Bliss", Microsoft Research Blog
  13. ↑ Weinreb, Gali (August 20, 2023), "Who'll blink first? The mathematics of politics", Globes
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