person
Boaz Barak
Harvard; OpenAI safety; theoretical CS
Harvard theoretical CS professor on leave at OpenAI working on safety. Long-standing CS theorist whose recent posts have argued for taking AI safety problems seriously while criticizing parts of the doomer narrative.
current Researcher (on leave from Harvard), OpenAI; Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues alignment is a real and tractable technical problem, that progress is faster than worst-case predictions assumed, and that the most useful safety work happens inside frontier labs.
I joined OpenAI because I think the most interesting and important alignment research is happening on actual frontier models. Working from the outside has limits.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.