Brian Christian
Author, researcher and programmer
Brian Christian is an American author, researcher, poet and programmer who writes about what computer science means for people.
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American Born 1984 in Wilmington, United States
About Brian Christian
Christian was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His studies took him through Brown University, the University of Washington and the University of Oxford, covering computer science, philosophy, poetry, psychology and computational neuroscience. His books are The Most Human Human (2011), Algorithms to Live By (2016) and The Alignment Problem (2020). He wrote Algorithms to Live By together with Tom Griffiths, using ideas from computing to look at how people make everyday decisions. The Alignment Problem examines ethics and safety questions in AI research, and the people working on them. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Wired, and his books have been translated into nineteen languages. He also spent nine years as Director of Technology at the publisher McSweeney's, and he has worked on open-source software such as Ruby on Rails.