Boaz Barak | Polylogues

In this episode of our Polylogues web series, Spring 2024 Science Communicator in Residence Ben Brubaker sits down with cryptographer and machine learning researcher Boaz Barak (Harvard and OpenAI). The two discuss Boaz’s path to theoretical computer science, the relationship between theory and practice in cryptography and AI, and specific topics in AI, including generality, alignment, worst- vs. average-case performance, and watermarking.