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cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

The MASK Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty From Accuracy in AI Systems

Richard Ren, Arunim Agarwal, Mantas Mazeika +13

As large language models (LLMs) become more capable and agentic, the requirement for trust in their outputs grows significantly, yet at the same time concerns have been mounting th…

cs.LG2025

Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs

Mantas Mazeika, Xuwang Yin, Rishub Tamirisa +8

As AIs rapidly advance and become more agentic, the risk they pose is governed not only by their capabilities but increasingly by their propensities, including goals and values. Tr…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Safetywashing: Do AI Safety Benchmarks Actually Measure Safety Progress?

Richard Ren, Steven Basart, Adam Khoja +9

As artificial intelligence systems grow more powerful, there has been increasing interest in "AI safety" research to address emerging and future risks. However, the field of AI saf…

cs.LG2024★ 23 cited

HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal

Mantas Mazeika, Long Phan, Xuwang Yin +9

Automated red teaming holds substantial promise for uncovering and mitigating the risks associated with the malicious use of large language models (LLMs), yet the field lacks a sta…

cs.LG2023★ 65 cited

Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

Andy Zou, Long Phan, Sarah Chen +18

In this paper, we identify and characterize the emerging area of representation engineering (RepE), an approach to enhancing the transparency of AI systems that draws on insights f…