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Brian Christian
Algorithms to Live By; CS-as-life-frameworks curator.
Brian Christian is an author and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy. He co-authored Algorithms to Live By (2016) with Tom Griffiths, applying concepts such as optimal stopping, caching, and scheduling to everyday choices. He also wrote The Alignment Problem, examining how human values are encoded in machine-learning systems.
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Last updated
10 May 2026