Samuel Albanie

Samuel Albanie

frontier evals lead for gemini

I work on gemini at Google DeepMind, where I lead the frontier evals team.

I’m interested in the future of AI R&D automation and the technical challenges of evaluation, oversight and reward hacking in large scale RL runs.

Previously, I was an assistant professor at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I was a researcher in the Visual Geometry Group and a research fellow at Balliol College.

I’m based in King’s Cross, London’s techno-optimist postcode.

A masterfully drawn cartoon depiction of Samuel hiking cheerfully in the mountains. In the background, three gulls hover in an ecologically implausible formation above snowcapped mountains. Samuel carries a stick and wears a knapsack on his back of the kind that is only used to illustrate the Knapsack Problem. The image is signed skillfully, but illegibly. It's the kind of signature that conveys a profound passion for the digital form.