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# Brian Christian

Research fellow, Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), UC Berkeley; author of The Alignment Problem (as of 2026-10-10; source: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/).

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

## In the news (1 event, newest first)

- 2026-04-06: [RCTs (N = 1,222): about 10 minutes of AI help makes people give up sooner and do worse once the AI is taken away](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-06-ai-assistance-reduces-persistence/), Research. It is causal (randomized) evidence that even brief AI help lowers persistence, one of the strongest predictors of learning, and not only correlational survey data.

Profile checked 2026-10-10.