Bienvenido!
I am an AI Research Scientist interested in diverse questions at the intersection of cognitive science and machine learning. I have a PhD from the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department (BCS) and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, where I was advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Tom Malone.
My research has focused on autonomous goal formation, intrinsic motivation in reinforcement learning, AI consciousness and subjective experience, and various forms of reasoning and learning to learn. I have done this research at institutions including MIT, MILA, Redwood Research, Open Philanthropy, and Facebook AI Research.
campero@mit.edu
Quickly Assessing Reward Hacking-like Behavior in LLMs and its Sensitivity to Prompt Variations (June 2025)
We present a simple eval set of 4 scenarios where we evaluate Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models. We find various degrees of reward hacking-like behavior with high sensitivity to prompt variation. In collaboration with Redwood Research.
Genes vs Cultures vs Consciousness
I wrote an interdisciplinary scientific short book that explores the development, the nature, and the history of the mind at a conceptual level. Read More
Other Stuff
- Founder and CEO of Stateoftheart AI (acquired by Instawork)
- Silver medalist, 2024 Arc Prize (14th place, top 1%)
- Ranked top 10 in Mexico’s 2023 Global Poker Index
- Founding General Chair, RIIAA (6 conference editions in Mexico and Ecuador)
- Honorable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad (2008)