Harvard's AI Safety course CS 2881 by Boaz Barak is fully on YouTube
himanshustwts · x · 2026-11-15
Harvard's AI Safety and Alignment course CS 2881, taught by Boaz Barak, has all its Fall 2026 lecture videos publicly available on YouTube:
- Topics span modern LLM training and inference, open language models, and the economic impact of AI, with guest speakers affiliated with OpenAI
- Lectures run from the 2.5-hour course introduction through Lecture 10, with view counts ranging from a few hundred to 8.5k
- Barak is a Harvard CS professor who also works at OpenAI
A free, complete university-level resource for anyone wanting to study AI safety systematically.
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