Hi — I’m Boden! I’m currently a student at Shady Side Academy, and am broadly interested in exploring how we can use our understanding of the world to improve the future.
I currently co-run the Center for Youth and AI, a national AI Advocacy organization, am researching AI’s impacts on civic reasoning at Sway out of Carnegie Mellon University, among other commitments. Most of my public writing lives on my Substack.
Research interests (click to expand)
- AI Safety and Security
- AI character
- Automated alignment research
- Moral philosophy
- Progress studies and mechanism design for pro-social technologies
- Computational Social Science, especially surrounding multi-agent systems and political polarization
- The Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s, and how it parallels modern mass movements
Some things I love:
- Long bike rides
- Getz/Gilberto (1964)
- Night skiing with friends
- Joyce's Dubliners
- Arguments reductio ad absurdum
- Hipster cafes (cafés?)
- Stand-up comedy
- Urban zoning reform
- Well-designed survey questions
- Sleek, modern architecture
- Poetry in Cambria font
- LLM attractor states
- Good Will Hunting
- Ambitious biotech startups
- Lifting to failure
- The word Godspeed
- Cold emails, sent and received
- Spontaneous mid-run sing alongs
- Salt Lake City, UT
- The month of May