Nathan is a machine learning researcher who works on building, understanding, and advocating for open language models and other responsible autonomous systems.

He is currently a post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI.

PapersGoogle Scholar, my CV, Semantic Scholar, see PhD Thesis.
Talks 
YouTube channel or CV.
NewsletterInterconnects.ai
BookRLHF Book

Podcast appearances

I host two podcasts (sporadically).

  1. Interconnects Interviews cover the latest technical trends in AI.
  2. The Retort covers the political economy and stakes of AI.

Otherwise, I sometimes appear on friends' podcasts:

Guides

Some useful links for graduate students and academics.

Popular Posts

Some of my most popular posts before transitioning to Substack (Top Posts there).

Other

  • Office Hours - I (sometimes) hold regular office hours through the ML Collective.
  • Contact - Get in touch with me.
  • Bookshelf - Books I've read and recommend.
  • Buy me a ☕️ - Support my work.
  • RLHF Book - My upcoming book on reinforcement learning from human feedback.