Michiel Bakker is an AI safety researcher and computational social scientist focusing on AI alignment, societal impacts of AI, and AI’s role in human-human and human-computer interaction. He is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and affiliated with MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems & Society and the MIT Center for Constructive Communication based at the MIT Media Lab. Michiel is also a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. He holds a master’s and PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT, and a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Physics from Delft University of Technology.