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As I announced on this blog a couple weeks ago, I’m teaching a new course this semester at UT Austin, entitled AI Alignment Theory. To call such a course “timely” seems like an understatement; this is the first course I’ve ever taught for which multiple gargantuan developments releva...

“The Topic” being, of course, the Mathocalypse, except sometimes with AI alignment and even quantum computing and complexity theory and other stuff thrown in.

With Ryan Peterman:

Notably, near the end of the above podcast, you can watch my li...

Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!”

While my son was being a brat, he als...

This semester, I’ve been teaching a brand-new course, entitled CS395T AI Alignment Theory. Here’s the course description:

The astounding progress of AI over the past decade has been accompanied by a rising fear: do we really understand how to align and control powerful AI systems—how to get them reliably to do what we wanted, or would want them to do on reflecti...

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Recorded in-person in my office at UT Austin, with a bulleted list containing “ARC,” “Scalable Oversight,” and “Models” behind me on my blackboard for some reason (I no longer remember who put those there or why). 90 mi...