Hi, I’M Michael Chen

Hello!

I work on AI policy at METR, an AI evaluations nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. I help support major AI developers with designing frontier safety policies and provide input on public policy.

Concurrently, I'm also a part-time PhD student at the University of Oxford and affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.

Before METR, I was a software engineer at Stripe, working on backend infrastructure and the occasional LLM application. I coauthored a paper on AI deception that was covered in The Guardian and MIT Technology Review, and I have been interviewed in Time.



Other things I've done:

  • Reviewer of NeurIPS 2025, Technical AI Governance Workshop at ICML 2025
  • Speaker at the Conference on Frontier AI Safety Frameworks 2024, AI ATL 2025
  • Panelist at a side event of the AI Action Summit in 2025
  • Research mentor of GovAI and ERA Fellowships in Summer 2025