en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Christian#The_Most_Human_Human
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Beginning in 2012, Christian has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Christian has not been continuously a UC Berkeley visiting scholar since 2012. His official research bio lists separate visiting-scholar appointments ending in 2015, 2019, and 2020, with later roles as a CHAI affiliate and then postdoctoral scholar.
Full reasoning
Brian Christian’s own current research page breaks his UC Berkeley roles into separate appointments with dates, rather than one continuous visiting-scholar position starting in 2012.
His official page lists:
- Visiting Scholar, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (2012–2015)
- Visiting Scholar, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (2018–2019)
- Visiting Scholar, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (2020)
- Affiliate, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2017–Present)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2026–Present)
That contradicts the article’s wording that he "has been a visiting scholar" at Berkeley continuously since 2012. The primary-source timeline shows several distinct roles, not an unbroken visiting-scholar appointment from 2012 onward.
2 sources
- Research | Brian Christian
Academic Affiliations ... University of California, Berkeley ... Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2026-Present) ... Affiliate, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2017-Present) ... Visiting Scholar, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (2020) ... Visiting Scholar, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (2018-2019) ... Visiting Scholar, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (2012-2015).
- CHAI 2020 Progress Report
The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian ... has been affiliated with CHAI since early 2017 and regularly attends CHAI seminars ...
At UC Berkeley, he is affiliated with a number of research groups, including the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
This sentence presents several past Berkeley appointments as if they were all current. Christian’s official research page dates the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, CITRIS, and Simons Institute affiliations as earlier visiting-scholar roles, while only CHAI is listed as current.
Full reasoning
Christian’s official research page does not list all four Berkeley groups as current affiliations.
Instead, it gives a dated timeline:
- Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences — Visiting Scholar (2012–2015)
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute — Visiting Scholar (2018–2019)
- Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing — Visiting Scholar (2020)
- Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence — Affiliate (2017–Present); Postdoctoral Scholar (2026–Present)
So the article’s present-tense wording ("he is affiliated") is inaccurate for the first three groups. According to the primary source, those were past Berkeley appointments; CHAI is the one clearly listed as ongoing.
2 sources
- Research | Brian Christian
Academic Affiliations ... University of California, Berkeley ... Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2026-Present) ... Affiliate, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2017-Present) ... Visiting Scholar, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (2020) ... Visiting Scholar, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (2018-2019) ... Visiting Scholar, Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (2012-2015).
- Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
Brian Christian, CHAI Affiliate, has published an article titled “Computational Frameworks for Human Care” ...