Mira Murati (born 1988) is an Albanian mechanical engineer, researcher and business executive. She is currently the chief technology officer of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company that develops ChatGPT.
Early life and education
Murati was born in 1988 in Vlorë, Albania, to Albanian parents.
At the age of 16, she left Albania to attend and graduate from Pearson College UWC, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the schools and colleges around the world in the United World Colleges movement.
Later, she graduated from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
Career
Murati started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2011, and worked at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013. She spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager of Model X before joining Leap Motion. She then joined OpenAI in 2018, later becoming its chief technology officer, where she leads the company's work on ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex. Her responsibilities include oversight of the company's research, product and safety teams.
She is an advocate for the regulation of AI.
