Product leader who turns frontier research into polished, widely used products: Joanne led product work on DALL·E (helping move DALL·E 2 from research to a beta product and shaping safeguards), and she has driven productized features across ChatGPT and the API (chat mode, voice, personalization/memory). Her background (Stanford CS/applied math, prior work on Google Assistant) supports a blend of technical product and research collaboration.
newyorker+2Founded and scaled OpenAI's Model Behavior discipline focused on personality, steerability, and safe interactions: Joanne helped codify model behavior principles (the Model Spec), worked with research and safety teams to reduce sycophancy and improve helpful, boundary-aware responses, and coordinated product/policy tradeoffs when shipping personality and personalization previews.
theverge+2Research-minded thinker about human–AI relationships and ethics: she publishes and speaks publicly about perceived vs. ontological consciousness, emotional impacts of AI, and how design choices (tone, memory, personalization) shape user well‑being—demonstrating a product+policy approach that emphasizes social science and user research alongside technical work.
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