Dr. Peter S. Park

 

Dr. Peter S. Park (Harvard Ph.D. '23, Princeton A.B. '17) conducts research at MIT as a Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Existential Safety. He is grateful to be advised as a Postdoctoral Associate by Max Tegmark of MIT.

Dr. Park applies mathematics, the social sciences, and the cognitive sciences to research human-AI dynamics. To illustrate, OpenAI's mission is to create "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." If and when we humans cede our decision-making to these highly autonomous AIs, will we come to regret this potentially irreversible choice? Dr. Park investigates this question by using a variety of tools, such as empirical studies of current AI systems, relevant data from the evolutionary or historical past, and mathematical models of what a hypothetical AI-led future may look like.

Dr. Park was advised by Joe Henrich of Harvard's Human Evolutionary Biology department (Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab). He was advised by Martin Nowak from AY2019-2020 spring to AY2020-2021 fall, and by Eric Maskin from AY2018-2019 fall to AY2019-2020 fall. Before that, he was an undergraduate studying math at Princeton University, where he was advised by Peter Sarnak (senior thesis) and Manjul Bhargava (junior independent work).

Please find Dr. Park's CV here.

 

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