Naomi Bashkansky

Harvard ’25 Master’s & Bachelor’s in Computer Science | World Girls Chess Champion, Woman International Master

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About

Experience

  • OpenAI (San Francisco Bay Area · On-site)
    • Researcher
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Member of Technical Staff (Resident)
      Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos

      Research Resident on the Alignment team.

  • Technology and Security Policy Fellow at RAND
    Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 · 3 mos

    Wrote a piece on the implications "elicitation" has on AI evaluations.

  • Auto Alignment Research Trainer at Anthropic
    Oct 2024 - Nov 2024 · 2 mos

    Provided feedback to Anthropic’s models on their alignment research outputs.

  • U.S. AI Safety Institute Intern at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
    May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos

    Helped write initial drafts of the AISI's Managing Misuse Risk for Dual-Use Foundation Models: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.800-1.ipd.pdf. Wrote policy memos. Provided technical feedback.

  • Astra Research Fellow at Constellation
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2024 · 2 mos

    Research position, mentored by Evan Hubinger. My research is on getting models to accurately self-report internal states, for example, accurately reporting the presence of a steering vector.