2026 AI course guest lineup: Schulman on reward hacking, Pachocki on recursive self-improvement
himanshustwts · x · 2026-11-15
A screenshot of a 2026 AI course syllabus reveals a star-studded guest lecture lineup: Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic) on cyber capabilities, Dwarkeh Patel & Daniel Kokotajlo on recursive self-improvement, Erik Brynjolfsson & Chad Jones on AI's economic impact, John Schulman on reward hacking and alignment, Nathan Lambert on open-source models, Helen Toner on frontier AI regulation, Jack Lindsey (Anthropic) on interpretability, Jeff Sebo on AI welfare, and Jakub Pachocki (OpenAI) on alignment and recursive self-improvement. The lineup mirrors what frontier labs and academia consider the hottest topics right now.
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