Chen personal website (web)
Citation
Michael Chen. “Hi, I’m Michael Chen.” Personal website, date not stated. https://miclchen.com. Read 2026-11-06.
Bottom line
- Michael Chen worked on AI policy at METR, an AI evaluations nonprofit in Berkeley. Before that he was a software engineer at Stripe.
- He is a part-time PhD student at the University of Oxford. The page lists his papers from 2020 to 2026.
Background
His personal website. It has a short biography, a list of writings and a list of other activities. This is a profile page. His entity page lists it; no reading list does.
Key claims
- “I used to work on AI policy at METR, an AI evaluations nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. I helped support major AI developers with designing frontier safety policies and provided input on public policy.” (Hello)
- “Currently, I’m a part-time PhD student at the University of Oxford and affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.” (Hello)
- “Before METR, I was a software engineer at Stripe, working on backend infrastructure and the occasional LLM application.” (Hello)
- “I coauthored a paper on AI deception that was covered in The Guardian and MIT Technology Review, and I have been interviewed in Time.” (Hello)
- “AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions” “Patterns, 2024.” (Writings)
- “Frontier Safety Policies for AI Emergency Preparedness in China” “ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026.” (Writings)
- “RE-Bench: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts” “International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025.” (Writings)
- “Reviewer of NeurIPS 2025, Technical AI Governance Workshop at ICML 2025” (Other things I’ve done)
Evidence and method
A self-authored page. Each writing links to its venue.
Limits
It does not name his post at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). It gives no dates for his work at METR or Stripe.