I’m a 5th year Artificial Intelligence PhD student at Berkeley advised by Anca Dragan and Stuart Russell within BAIR and CHAI. I’m thankful to be supported by the NSF Fellowship.

I’m interested in humans’ preference, value, and belief changes, and how they may be affected by interactions with AI systems. I’ve studied this both in generality (with the language of DR-MDPs), and more specifically in the context of recommender systems, investigating how the choice of algorithm might affect us users. I’m probably best known for my work on human-AI collaboration, and developing the Overcooked-AI benchmark.

Outside of research, I enjoy inline skating 🛹, watching movies 🎥, and finding new music 🎵. Before immigrating to the US, I grew up in the amazingly chaotic city of Livorno 🇮🇹 – visit if you get the chance!

Publications

Marcus Williams*, Micah Carroll*, Adhyyan Narang, Constantin Weisser, Brendan Murphy, Anca Dragan
ICLR 2025
Micah Carroll, Davis Foote, Anand Siththaranjan, Stuart Russell, Anca Dragan
ICML 2024
Micah Carroll, Orr Paradise, Jessy Lin, Raluca Georgescu, Mingfei Sun, David Bignell, Stephanie Milani, Katja Hofmann, Matthew Hausknecht, Anca Dragan, Sam Devlin
NeurIPS 2022 (Oral)
Micah Carroll, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Stuart Russell, Anca Dragan
ICML 2022 (Spotlight)
Micah Carroll, Rohin Shah, Mark Ho, Tom Griffiths, Sanjit Seshia, Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan
NeurIPS 2019

Selected Talks

On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback

FAR.ai Alignment Workshop, Santa Cruz 2024

AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions

PIBBS Speaker Series 2024

Research Mentorship

  • George Ingebretsen (Berkeley EECS undergrad)
  • Karim Abdel Sadek (incoming PhD student)
  • Marcus Williams (now OpenAI)
  • Constantin Weisser (now Haize Labs)
  • Lukas Fluri (incoming PhD Student at ETH Zurich)
  • Calvin Bo Zhang (now Scale AI)
  • Tianyi (Alex) Qiu (now Anthropic Fellow)
  • Davis Foote
  • Ethan Mendez (now PhD Student at Georgia Tech)
  • Austin Jang (incoming PhD Student)
  • Francis Geng (now PhD Student at UCSD)
  • Sebastian Zhao (Berkeley EECS undergrad)
  • Yike Wang (now PhD Student at University of Washington)
  • David Zhang (now SWE at Observe, Inc.)
  • Sashrika Pandey (now SWE at Figma)
  • Anrui Gu (now ML Engineer at Smith & Associates)
  • Mesut Yang (now SWE at Ironclad)
  • Nathan Miller (now SWE at Microsoft)
  • Paul Knott (now CSET)

Learning

Teaching