I am teaching CS 2881: AI Safety this fall at Harvard. This blog is primarily aimed at students at Harvard or MIT (where we have a cross-registering agreement) who are considering taking the course…| Windows On Theory
[Crossposted on LessWrong] Throughout history, technological and scientific advances have had both good and ill effects, but their overall impact has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks to scienti…| Windows On Theory
The Trevisan Prize for outstanding work in the Theory of Computing is sponsored by the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University and the Italian Academy of Sci…| Windows On Theory
The sixth Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC) conference will be held at UC Santa Barbara, California, on August 16-17, 2025. The conference is affiliated with CRYPTO 2025, and will take …| Windows On Theory
Please consider nominating worthy candidates to the Knuth Prize! The prize is awarded “for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science o…| Windows On Theory
The 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2025), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing, will be held in Sydney…| Windows On Theory
Read all of the posts by Boaz Barak on Windows On Theory| Windows On Theory
[See my post with Edelman on AI takeover and Aaronson on AI scenarios. This is a rough, with various fine print, caveats, and other discussions missing. Cross-posted on Windows on Theory.…| Windows On Theory
[Yet another “philosophizing” post, but one with some actual numbers. See also this follow up. –Boaz] Recently there have been many debates on “artificial general intelligence” (A…| Windows On Theory
[Crossposted on lesswrong, see here for prior posts] The following statements seem to be both important for AI safety and are not widely agreed upon. These are my opinions, not those of my employer…| Windows On Theory
(From Sergey Yekhanin; committee chair) Please nominate people to the Kanellakis award – deadline is December 15.| Windows On Theory
The Swiss Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science (Jan 26 — 31 2025, https://theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool2025/) is the third installment in a series of annual winter schools jointly organized by EPFL and ETH Zurich.The goal of the school is to educate outstanding international PhD students about exciting recent developments in theoretical computer science.The winter school will be held in … Continue reading Swiss winter school on Theoretical CS| Windows On Theory
The following events will take place to honor our dear colleague and friend Luca Trevisan, that our community lost this June. RANDOM-APPROX 2024 will include a session in memory of Luca Trevisan co…| Windows On Theory
We would have liked to organize Luca’s 60th birthday conference, but as you all know, we tragically lost him to a battle with cancer. However, we would like to take the occasion of Luca’s birthday …| Windows On Theory
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The theoretical computer science community and science at large suffered a great tragedy today. Luca Trevisan has been one of my intellectual and personal heroes since I joined the field. His work …| Windows On Theory
Avi Wigderson has won the Turing award. I just can’t find the words on how happy this makes me, so won’t even try to write a post, beyond what I wrote on Twitter. Many have posted on Av…| Windows On Theory
One of the lessons we have seen in language modeling is the power of scale. The original GPT paper of Radford et al. noted that at some point during training, the model “acquired” the ability to do…| Windows On Theory
Posts about Philosophizing written by Boaz Barak| Windows On Theory
[Cross posted on lesswrong; see here for my prior writings ; update: 8/25/23: added a paragraph on secrecy] [it appears almost certain that in the immediate future, it would be] pos…| Windows On Theory
[Cross posted on lesswrong; see here for my prior writings] There have been several studies to estimate the timelines for artificial general intelligence (aka AGI). Ajeya Cotra wro…| Windows On Theory
Photo from National Photo Company Collection; see also (Sobel, 2017) [Cross posted in lesswrong and windows on theory see here for my prior writings]“computer, n. /kəmˈpjuːtə/. One who computes; a …| Windows On Theory
