Shafi Goldwasser
Israeli-American computer scientistWikipedia
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Oct 1, 2026
Can AI Talk To Whales? | Project CETI Founder David Gruber
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41:03Finn MurphyHOST
Yeah.
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41:04David GruberGUEST
That's where we're at now, and I think that's where our theory team, which has got some, like, really amazing humans on it, like Shafi Goldwasser, who she's got a Turing Award, did a lot of the gold standard of, like, internet cryptography, and Adam Kalai, who's at OpenAI right now, and Orr Paradis, who just wrote our, kind of as the brainchild of Whale Acoustic Model, the first transformer-based Translative model that we have.
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41:29David GruberGUEST
They're beginning to think about like in just using pen and paper and theory of like how to do it.
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41:34David GruberGUEST
And it was really fun getting creative because they're starting to like look at like conlangs, you know, Game of Thrones and like human invented languages.
World-leaders in Cryptography: Yael Tauman Kalai
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26:56Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
That's right.
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26:59Bill BuchananHOST
So then, I mean, you didn't just work with Ron Revest and Odi Shamir, but then the ever-wonderful Shafi Goldwasser.
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27:08Bill BuchananHOST
How did that happen between your MSc, your Masters and the PhD program?
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27:14Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
Yeah, so I decided at some point during, you know, it's natural to do a master's and immediately go to PhD.
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57:18Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
People who study law should think about it from their viewpoint.
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57:22Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
And I'm happy to say, I feel like there's a lot of excitement about this, and a lot of people are studying this.
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57:27Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
Actually, there's a new institute called Rezi, next to Shafi Goldwasser and Vinod, who's my colleague, and also my husband, Adam Kalai, who used to work at OpenAI until recently, and now left and started this institute.
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57:42Yael Tauman KalaiGUEST
It's an institute for AI safety.