Scott Garrabrant
Mathematician at MIRI who works on the foundations of agency and alignment
A mathematician at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute whose work on logical induction and the foundations of agency underpins much of the alignment vocabulary on this page, including the mesa-optimization line of research.
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