Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"My mission is to build technologies that can't lie."
That's Dan Klein on this week's Gradient Dissent. Dan is a Berkeley computer science professor now building Scaled Cognition, a company designed around one bet: that reliability is the part of intelligence that's been left behind.
Lukas and Dan get into why ChatGPT is always confident even when it's wrong and how Dan is working to fix this at the foundation.
"My mission is to build technologies that can't lie."
That's Dan Klein on this week's Gradient Dissent. Dan is a Berkeley computer science professor now building Scaled Cognition, a company designed around one bet: that reliability is the part of intelligence that's been left behind.
Lukas and Dan get into why ChatGPT is always confident even when it's wrong and how Dan is working to fix this at the foundation.










