4 papers
Safety Nudges: User-Facing Interventions for Real-Time AI Risk Awareness
Varshini Elangovan, James Wedgwood, Chhavi Yadav +3
Conversational AI systems can pose safety risks to their users such as hallucination, sycophancy, overconfidence, and anthropomorphism, but these risks are difficult for users to d…
Personalization, Personas, and Forecasting in Value Alignment
James Wedgwood, Pratiksha Thaker, Neil Kale +1
LLM behavior may be conditioned by human identity in several ways: they may be asked to adapt to users, role-play populations, or forecast how people would answer value-laden quest…
DSPA: Dynamic SAE Steering for Data-Efficient Preference Alignment
James Wedgwood, Aashiq Muhamed, Mona T. Diab +1
Preference alignment is usually achieved by weight-updating training on preference data, which adds substantial alignment-stage compute and provides limited mechanistic visibility.…
Automated Concept Discovery for LLM-as-a-Judge Preference Analysis
James Wedgwood, Chhavi Yadav, Virginia Smith
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as scalable evaluators of model outputs, but their preference judgments exhibit systematic biases and can diverge from human eval…