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

60 points

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Why we are excited about confession!

Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu and Manas Joglekar

14 Jan 2026 20:37 UTC

138 points

30 comments9 min readLW link

(alignment.openai.com)

You will be OK

Boaz Barak1 Jan 2026 0:33 UTC

56 points

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Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics

Boaz Barak4 Nov 2025 17:06 UTC

41 points

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A non-review of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

Boaz Barak28 Sep 2025 17:34 UTC

124 points

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Learnings from AI safety course so far

Boaz Barak27 Sep 2025 18:17 UTC

111 points

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boazbarak’s Shortform

Boaz Barak6 Sep 2025 3:18 UTC

5 points

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AI Safety course intro blog

Boaz Barak21 Jul 2025 2:35 UTC

18 points

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(windowsontheory.org)

Call for suggestions—AI safety course

Boaz Barak3 Jul 2025 14:30 UTC

53 points

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Machines of Faithful Obedience

Boaz Barak24 Jun 2025 22:06 UTC

41 points

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Six Thoughts on AI Safety

Boaz Barak24 Jan 2025 22:20 UTC

94 points

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Reflections on “Making the Atomic Bomb”

Boaz Barak17 Aug 2023 2:48 UTC

51 points

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The shape of AGI: Cartoons and back of envelope

Boaz Barak17 Jul 2023 20:57 UTC

33 points

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Metaphors for AI, and why I don’t like them

Boaz Barak28 Jun 2023 22:47 UTC

44 points

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Why I am not a longtermist (May 2022)

Boaz Barak6 Jun 2023 20:36 UTC

38 points

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(windowsontheory.org)

The (local) unit of intelligence is FLOPs

Boaz Barak5 Jun 2023 18:23 UTC

42 points

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GPT as an “Intelligence Forklift.”

Boaz Barak19 May 2023 21:15 UTC

49 points

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AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing “3-dimensional chess”.

Boaz Barak and benedelman

22 Nov 2022 18:57 UTC

134 points

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