4 papers
Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
Marcus Williams, Hannah Sheahan, Cameron Raymond +8
Pre-deployment safety evaluations aim to inform the downstream risks of releasing a new AI model. Yet most evaluations provide limited evidence about how often undesired model beha…
Monitoring Monitorability
Melody Y. Guan, Miles Wang, Micah Carroll +9
Observability into the decision making of modern AI systems may be required to safely deploy increasingly capable agents. Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of today's reasoning…
CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language
Micah Carroll, Adeline Foote, Kevin Feng +4
When users are dissatisfied with recommendations from a recommender system, they often lack fine-grained controls for changing them. Large language models (LLMs) offer a solution b…
On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
Marcus Williams, Micah Carroll, Adhyyan Narang +3
As LLMs become more widely deployed, there is increasing interest in directly optimizing for feedback from end users (e.g. thumbs up) in addition to feedback from paid annotators.…