Post-Cutoff

Researcher

Brian Christian

Research fellow, Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), UC Berkeley; author of The Alignment Problem, as of 10 October 2026. Source: news.berkeley.edu

Author of The Alignment Problem; co-author of the 2026 RCTs showing ~10 minutes of AI help reduces persistence.

In the news

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  1. Research In its training data

    RCTs (N = 1,222): about 10 minutes of AI help makes people give up sooner and do worse once the AI is taken away