Irene Solaiman is an American artificial intelligence and public policy researcher. She has served as the head of global policy at Hugging Face since 2022. She was previously a researcher at OpenAI where she was the first person to test for social-impact bias on large language models.
Life
In 2019, Solaiman was an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and served as a public policy manager at OpenAI.[1][2] While there, she worked on GPT-2 and GPT-3.[1] Of Bangladeshi descent, Solaiman tested the Bengali language on the GPT language models.[3] She was the first person to test for social-impact bias on large language models.[4][3] She was later an AI policy manager at Zillow for almost a year.[1] In April 2022, Solaiman became the head of global policy at Hugging Face.[1][3]