Hi — I’m Boden! I’m currently a student at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh.
My main goals are to improve the future and live a beautiful life, though I am still learning how to do both.
I’m fascinated by a wide array of topics, but these days most of my work ties back to AI: I’m developing AI character evaluations and running the Center for Youth and AI, among other commitments. There’s more detail on my CV, if that’s what you’re here for.
I mess up often; you can give me anonymous feedback here. And don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to say hi!
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
- 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
Research interests
- AI safety and security
- AI character
- Automated alignment research
- Scalable evaluations and oversight
- Moral philosophy
- Moral uncertainty and cluelessness
- Technological accelerationism
- Progress studies and mechanism design for pro-social technologies
- Computational social science, especially multi-agent systems and game theory
- The Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s, and how it parallels modern mass movements