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20232025
most citedRepresentation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

65 citations · 104 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CR2025

Best Practices for Biorisk Evaluations on Open-Weight Bio-Foundation Models

Boyi Wei, Zora Che, Nathaniel Li +10

Open-weight bio-foundation models present a dual-use dilemma. While holding great promise for accelerating scientific research and drug development, they could also enable bad acto…

cs.LG2024★ 13 cited

The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning

Nathaniel Li, Alexander Pan, Anjali Gopal +54

The White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence highlights the risks of large language models (LLMs) empowering malicious actors in developing biological, cyber, and che…

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.AI2023★ 3 cited

Can LLMs Follow Simple Rules?

Norman Mu, Sarah Chen, Zifan Wang +6

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed with increasing real-world responsibilities, it is important to be able to specify and constrain the behavior of these systems in a rel…

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…