Publications (6)
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Tamera Lanham, Anna Chen, Ansh Radhakrishnan +27
Large language models (LLMs) perform better when they produce step-by-step, "Chain-of-Thought" (CoT) reasoning before answering a question, but it is unclear if the stated reasonin…
Adaptive Deployment of Untrusted LLMs Reduces Distributed Threats
Jiaxin Wen, Vivek Hebbar, Caleb Larson +9
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, it is prudent to assess whether safety measures remain effective even if LLMs intentionally try to bypass them. Previou…
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu +36
Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when giv…
Question Decomposition Improves the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning
Ansh Radhakrishnan, Karina Nguyen, Anna Chen +21
As large language models (LLMs) perform more difficult tasks, it becomes harder to verify the correctness and safety of their behavior. One approach to help with this issue is to p…
Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think
Yanda Chen, Joe Benton, Ansh Radhakrishnan +12
Chain-of-thought (CoT) offers a potential boon for AI safety as it allows monitoring a model's CoT to try to understand its intentions and reasoning processes. However, the effecti…
Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine +7
Common methods for aligning large language models (LLMs) with desired behaviour heavily rely on human-labelled data. However, as models grow increasingly sophisticated, they will s…