What Ryan Greenblatt thinks about mathematics

@ryan-greenblatt · 26 positions · On ppll ↗

Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

Ryan Greenblatt did not write this page.

We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.

Filter mathematics · Newest first

Topic

All 26 AI alignment 13 scaling laws 5 AGI 2 AI agents 2 Anthropic 2 recursive self-improvement 2 reinforcement learning 2 AI and jobs 1 mathematics 1

2 more topics

politics 1 robotics 1

Sort

Newest Oldest

Only Ryan Greenblatt on mathematics. See everyone on mathematics

1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ryan Greenblatt has said — not written or endorsed by them.

1 position so far — this page is not yet offered to search engines.

11 Aug 2026

Our readingMachine learning is a shallow field compared with mathematics: even its most important ideas can be explained in a couple of minutes.

Their wordsSecond, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere

↗Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?youtube.com 3rd of 26 in this recording