Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson is an American theoretical computer scientist who works on quantum computing and computational complexity theory. After serving on the faculty at MIT, he became a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs its Quantum Information Center.

He is widely known for his blog Shtetl-Optimized and his book Quantum Computing Since Democritus, and he has also worked on AI safety research at OpenAI.

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