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Sydney Levine

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Visiting Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 Greater Boston, United States

Sydney Levine is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind whose work lies at the intersection of AI safety and the cognitive science of human morality. A graduate of Yale and Rutgers, she seeks to align AI with human values and will join NYU as an Assistant Professor in 2026.

During an internship at Amazon, she developed a machine learning classifier for Alexa that achieved over 90% accuracy, saving more than 1, 700 person-hours per month.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Visiting Research Scientist
Location
Greater Boston, United States
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AI Alignment
Her core research focuses on engineering AI systems to be better aligned with the plurality of human values, evident in her work on "Resource Rational Contractualism".
Moral Cognition
She studies the cognitive science of how humans make moral judgments to inform the development of safer and more ethical AI systems.
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3-2025
Visiting Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
8-2022 - 4-2025
Research Scientist
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
1-2017 - 6-2023
Postdoctoral Scholar, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1-2017 - 6-2023
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
Harvard University
9-2016 - 1-2017
Intern, Applied Modeling and Data Science Division, Alexa Team
Amazon
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Education
2011 - 2016
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Rutgers University
2005 - 2009
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Yale University
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