Publications (4)
Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman +1
AI agents are becoming more autonomous and increasingly interconnected, exposing them to new emergent risks arising from agent-to-agent interaction. One such risk is the spread of…
Target Privacy Threat Modeling for COVID-19 Exposure Notification Systems
Ananya Gangavarapu, Ellie Daw, Abhishek Singh +4
The adoption of digital contact tracing (DCT) technology during the COVID-19pandemic has shown multiple benefits, including helping to slow the spread of infectious disease and to…
Adding Location and Global Context to the Google/Apple Exposure Notification Bluetooth API
Ramesh Raskar, Abhishek Singh, Sam Zimmerman +1
Contact tracing requires a strong understanding of the context of a user, and location with other sensory data could provide a context for any infection encounter. Although Bluetoo…