Author: Justin Y. Chen
This blog post covers material for the second lecture of Harvard CS 2881r: AI Safety taught by Boaz Barak. This is an outline of the lecture, see the video and slides for more details.
Hi! I’m Justin, a PhD student at MIT in the Theory of Computation Group. I work on research problems at the intersection of algorithm design and machine learning. Recently, I have been crafting algorithms which interact with powerful but untrustworthy AI models (learning-augmented algorithms and LLM evaluation) or are stable to small changes in their inputs (differential privacy and replicability).
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