Assistant Professor Jacob Steinhardt has co-founded Transluce, a non-profit AI research lab. Transluce is building open, scalable technology to understand AI systems and steer them in the public interest. Transluce was co-founded with Sarah Schwettmann, a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, where she built MAIA, the first large-scale pipeline using interpretability agents underlying our tools.

"I’m excited to share that Sarah Schwettmann and I are launching Transluce.  Today’s complex AI systems are difficult to understand—not even experts can reliably predict their behavior once deployed.  Given AI's extraordinary consequences for society, we need scalable and open analyses of the capabilities and risks of AI systems now" said Steinhardt.

Steinhardt runs a leading AI research group at UC Berkeley, wrote Concrete Problems in AI Safety (the foundational research roadmap for the field), and designed MMLU, the most common benchmark for measuring the capabilities of AI systems. Previously, he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford under Percy Liang and worked at OpenAI.