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Brian Christian

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Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley

Christian made AI alignment accessible to a broad audience through The Alignment Problem, which connects technical failures in machine learning with questions about human values. His research now studies how reward models represent preferences and where human feedback falls short as a guide for AI behavior.

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Background

Current role
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible AI 2026-present
Previously
2023-2026DPhil Researcher, Human Information Processing Lab,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026