Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson is the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. He is a theoretical computer scientist whose research focuses on quantum computing and computational complexity theory, and from 2022 to 2024 he was on leave at OpenAI working on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. With support from Open Philanthropy, he is now building a research group at UT Austin on theoretical computer science for AI alignment.

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