Michael Chen

Michael Chen works on AI policy at METR and is an incoming part-time PhD student at Oxford in technical AI governance. Michael previously worked as a software engineer at Stripe. METR's policy team has assisted companies like Google DeepMind, Amazon, and Anthropic with developing their frontier safety policies – voluntary commitments to evaluate and mitigate severe AI risks. Besides corporate advising, Michael has provided feedback on U.S. state bills and the EU AI Act GPAI Code of Practice.