Caleb Rak

Caleb Rak is an operations professional in the AI safety and effective altruism community. He grew up in Norwich, Connecticut and attended Norwich Free Academy, where he was a 2017 National Merit Scholarship Finalist. He went on to Harvard University, graduating with a degree in Comparative Literature and Linguistics; his senior thesis was titled "Translating Zhou Zuoren: The Vernacular Essay and the Individual." After graduating, he became involved in EA community-building through roles at SPARC (a rationality and EA summer program for high school students) and Canopy Retreats (an organization supporting logistics for EA community events). He now works in Operations at Iliad (iliad.ac), an applied mathematics research organization focused on AI alignment that runs the Agent Foundations conference series. In that capacity, he received a $20,700 Long-Term Future Fund grant to organize the Agent Foundations 2025 workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, a five-day gathering of approximately 30 researchers working on mathematical foundations of AI alignment.

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