Iliad Intensive launches alignment course for math-heavy students
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-17
The Iliad Intensive is a month-long, full-time AI alignment course designed for students with strong backgrounds in math, physics, or theoretical CS. It offers self-contained lecture notes, worksheets, and study pointers. Topics include Alignment, Singular Learning Theory (SLT), Training Dynamics, Mechanistic Interpretability, Decision Theory, and AIXI. Developed by 20 contributors, the curriculum is under active development with existing parts praised for their high quality.
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