personnel
Stephen Casper — PhD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Metadata
| Source Table | personnel |
| Source ID | dEdVebUipe |
| Source URL | stephencasper.com/ |
| Parent | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Children | — |
| Created | Mar 24, 2026, 8:45 PM |
| Updated | Mar 25, 2026, 4:02 AM |
| Synced | Mar 25, 2026, 4:02 AM |
Record Data
id | dEdVebUipe |
personId | Stephen Casper(person) |
organizationId | Massachusetts Institute of Technology(organization) |
personEntityId | Stephen Casper(person) |
personDisplayName | — |
orgEntityId | Massachusetts Institute of Technology(organization) |
orgDisplayName | — |
role | PhD Student |
roleType | career |
startDate | 2021 |
endDate | — |
isFounder | No |
appointedBy | — |
background | — |
source | stephencasper.com/ |
notes | PhD at MIT on AI safety; focus on adversarial attacks and model evaluation; critical voice on alignment approaches |
Source Check Verdicts
partial85% confidence
Last checked: 4/9/2026
The source confirms three of four key fields: person (Stephen Casper), org (MIT), and role (PhD student). However, the source describes him as a 'final-year PhD student,' which indicates he is in the final year of his PhD program. The claimed startDate of 2021 is not explicitly mentioned in the source text. While a final-year PhD student in 2026 (based on the document's latest dated content) could plausibly have started in 2021, the source does not directly confirm this specific start date. The record is substantially accurate but incomplete regarding the startDate field.
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