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Boaz Barak

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I am a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, working in the alignment team, as well as a Catalyst professor of Computer Science at Harvard.

Thoughts on Claude’s Constitution

Boaz Barak27 Jan 2026 20:51 UTC
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Why we are ex­cited about con­fes­sion!

14 Jan 2026 20:37 UTC
138 points
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(alignment.openai.com)

You will be OK

Boaz Barak1 Jan 2026 0:33 UTC
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Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics

Boaz Barak4 Nov 2025 17:06 UTC
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A non-re­view of “If Any­one Builds It, Every­one Dies”

Boaz Barak28 Sep 2025 17:34 UTC
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Learn­ings from AI safety course so far

Boaz Barak27 Sep 2025 18:17 UTC
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boazbarak’s Shortform

Boaz Barak6 Sep 2025 3:18 UTC
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AI Safety course in­tro blog

Boaz Barak21 Jul 2025 2:35 UTC
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(windowsontheory.org)

Call for sug­ges­tions—AI safety course

Boaz Barak3 Jul 2025 14:30 UTC
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Machines of Faith­ful Obedience

Boaz Barak24 Jun 2025 22:06 UTC
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Six Thoughts on AI Safety

Boaz Barak24 Jan 2025 22:20 UTC
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Reflec­tions on “Mak­ing the Atomic Bomb”

Boaz Barak17 Aug 2023 2:48 UTC
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The shape of AGI: Car­toons and back of envelope

Boaz Barak17 Jul 2023 20:57 UTC
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Me­taphors for AI, and why I don’t like them

Boaz Barak28 Jun 2023 22:47 UTC
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Why I am not a longter­mist (May 2022)

Boaz Barak6 Jun 2023 20:36 UTC
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(windowsontheory.org)

The (lo­cal) unit of in­tel­li­gence is FLOPs

Boaz Barak5 Jun 2023 18:23 UTC
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GPT as an “In­tel­li­gence Fork­lift.”

Boaz Barak19 May 2023 21:15 UTC
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AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by play­ing “3-di­men­sional chess”.

22 Nov 2022 18:57 UTC
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