Researcher

Adam Gleave

As of October 2026, Adam Gleave is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, an AI safety research institute. In 2020, a paper he co-wrote, Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning, appeared at ICLR.He completed his PhD dissertation, Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning, at UC Berkeley in December 2022. A 2023 paper he co-wrote, Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs, appeared in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning. In 2025 Schmidt Sciences named him an AI2050 Early Career Fellow, and an ICML 2026 paper he co-authored received an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention.

Timeline

  1. 2020

    Adversarial policies for RL agents

    A paper he co-writes, Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning, appears at ICLR 2020.

  2. December 2022

    Towards trustworthy machine learning

    At UC Berkeley, he completes his PhD dissertation, Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning, in December 2022.

  3. 2023

    Attacking superhuman Go AIs

    Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs, which he co-writes, is published in 2023 in the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning.

  4. 2025

    An AI2050 early career fellowship

    Schmidt Sciences names him a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow.

  5. 2026

    An outstanding paper honorable mention

    The Obfuscation Atlas, which he co-authors, receives an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention at ICML 2026.

  6. As of October 2026

    Co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI

    He is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, an AI safety research institute, and he serves on the board of the Safe AI Forum.

Sources and credits

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  1. ICLR 2020 iclr.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning | EECS at UC Berkeley www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Adam Gleave - AI2050 ai2050.schmidtsciences.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. ICML 2026 Awards icml.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Adam Gleave - Schmidt Sciences schmidtsciences.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Adam Gleave - METR metr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.