--- title: "Tom Everitt — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Tom Everitt, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2021), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tom Everitt # Tom Everitt Tom Everitt has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2021; often with [Geoffrey Irving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geoffrey-irving/), [Iason Gabriel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iason-gabriel/), [Jan Leike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020224050) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1210-9866) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62066905) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020224050) · [71 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020224050) · [1,009 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020224050&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 189 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5202](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5202) 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=Tom+Everitt) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tom+Everitt) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tom+Everitt) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tom+Everitt) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2020–2026 · 22 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Australian National University** Canberra · Australia 2015–2022 · 19 papersEducation since 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/australian-national-university/) · [🏢**Google** London · United Kingdom 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 2011–2016 · 2 papersEducation 2011–2013Employment 2013–2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leike-2018-scalable-agent-alignment-reward-modeling/)** *(2018 · 227 citations)* Reinforcement learning thrives when a task has an explicit score, as in Atari or Go. Most practical jobs, such as handling email, writing software or managing a business, offer no built-in reward, and the user's goal exists only implicitly. The authors call this the agent alignment problem: making an agent act as its… 2. **[Alignment of Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kenton-2021-alignment-language-agents/)** *(2021 · 120 citations)* This DeepMind position paper asks how systems that act only by producing text, which the authors call language agents, can end up behaving against their designers' intentions. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Geoffrey Irving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geoffrey-irving/) - [Iason Gabriel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iason-gabriel/) - [Jan Leike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/) - [Laura Weidinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laura-weidinger/) - [Shane Legg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-legg/) - [Vishal Maini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/) - [Vladimir Mikulik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vladimir-mikulik/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 189 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [72 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026