--- title: "Alec Helyar — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Alec Helyar, OpenAI: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alec Helyar # Alec Helyar Alec Helyar has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Adam Lerer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-lerer/), [Adam Tauman Kalai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-tauman-kalai/), [Ahmed El-Kishky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-el-kishky/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114637221) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114637221) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114637221) · [120 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114637221&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,874 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1956](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/20/#star-1956) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Alec+Helyar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alec+Helyar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alec+Helyar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alec+Helyar) ## Affiliations [🏢**OpenAI** San Francisco · United States 2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers Alec Helyar's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OpenAI o1 System Card](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/openai-2024-openai-o1-system-card/)** *(2024 · 1,065 citations)* This system card describes how OpenAI evaluated the safety of its o1 reasoning models before release: o1 and o1-mini, a faster variant that is strong at coding. 2. **[Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/)** *(2024 · 109 citations)* Conventional safety training (SFT, RLHF) has two weaknesses. LLMs answer instantly without deliberating, and they infer safety rules only indirectly from labeled examples. As a result, they can be jailbroken yet still refuse harmless requests. OpenAI researchers propose Deliberative Alignment, which teaches the model… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**OpenAI o1 System Card arXiv:2412.16720**OpenAI, Aaron Jaech, Adam Kalai, et al.*2024 · 1,065 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/openai-2024-openai-o1-system-card/) 2. [**Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models arXiv:2412.16339**Melody Y. Guan, Manas Joglekar, Eric Wallace, et al.*2024 · 109 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/) 3. **[A Framework for Automated Measurement of Responsible AI Harms in Generative AI Applications ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17750) arXiv:2310.17750 · no summary yet**Ahmed Magooda et al.*2023 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Lerer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-lerer/) - [Adam Tauman Kalai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-tauman-kalai/) - [Ahmed El-Kishky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-el-kishky/) - [Aiden Low](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-low/) - [Aleksander Madry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/) - [Alex Beutel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-beutel/) - [Andrea Vallone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-vallone/) - [Boaz Barak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/) - [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) - [Manas Joglekar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manas-joglekar/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,874 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [93 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026