CS2881R L12: AI 2035 and GDPval
The last lecture of Harvard CS 2881R had Boaz Barak and two OpenAI guests, Tejal Patwardhan and Kevin Liu, look ten years out. Boaz's mental model: AI is an exponentially growing, increasingly general virtual workforce injected into the economy every year, and what worries him most is fast change with too little control, plus concentration of power and surveillance. Patwardhan presented GDPval, which uses real work products from industry experts as the reference and has other experts grade blind. Liu explained why coding agents have not yet automated AI research: verification is too expensive and feedback loops are too long. The site lists this session's Resources as 'to be determined', so everything here comes from the recording.