Bill Chen

Bill Chen

Watercolor painting of the Arch of Constantine
— arch of constantine painted by yours truly, 2022. watercolor on paper; a painting whose memory I was quite fond of, and yet ended up giving away

writings

  1. [a note] I’ve decided to not use machine intelligence in my writing
  2. We're Already Inside the Singularity
  3. We've always been taking off
  4. Cringe is actually pretty important

about

I work at OpenAI on its frontier evals team under agents post-training. Before that, I worked as part of its startups team. I was also a Y Combinator founder.

I was born in Shanghai. I moved to Canada when I was 9 and got my Bachelors from Columbia. I currently live in San Francisco.

Outside of everything “work” related, I enjoypainting watercolors, taking photos, running and playing the piano.