Alex Mallen

Karma: 2,324

Redwood Research

Which goals actually motivate deceptive alignment?

Cleo Nardo and Alex Mallen

19 May 2026 21:53 UTC

25 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Incriminating misaligned AI models via distillation

Alek Westover, SebastianP, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, Alexa Pan, Julian Stastny and Vivek Hebbar

15 May 2026 21:43 UTC

115 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment

Alex Mallen15 May 2026 18:20 UTC

64 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Clarifying the role of the behavioral selection model

Alex Mallen10 May 2026 19:41 UTC

17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Early-stage empirical work on “spillway motivations”

Arjun Khandelwal, Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

1 May 2026 21:29 UTC

26 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations

Alex Mallen1 May 2026 17:42 UTC

107 points

0 comments32 min readLW link

To what extent is Qwen3-32B predicting its persona?

Arjun Khandelwal, ryan_greenblatt and Alex Mallen

30 Apr 2026 21:09 UTC

85 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Recursive forecasting: Eliciting long-term forecasts from myopic fitness-seekers

Jozdien and Alex Mallen

28 Apr 2026 18:00 UTC

55 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Fail safe(r) at alignment by channeling reward-hacking into a “spillway” motivation

Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

27 Apr 2026 17:43 UTC

106 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes

Alex Mallen and ryan_greenblatt

14 Apr 2026 1:44 UTC

182 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Are AIs more likely to pursue on-episode or beyond-episode reward?

Anders Cairns Woodruff and Alex Mallen

12 Mar 2026 17:35 UTC

45 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The case for satiating cheaply-satisfied AI preferences

Alex Mallen10 Mar 2026 18:09 UTC

103 points

7 comments23 min readLW link

Will reward-seekers respond to distant incentives?

Alex Mallen16 Feb 2026 19:35 UTC

57 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Fitness-Seekers: Generalizing the Reward-Seeking Threat Model

Alex Mallen29 Jan 2026 19:42 UTC

92 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

The behavioral selection model for predicting AI motivations

Alex Mallen and Buck

4 Dec 2025 18:46 UTC

204 points

31 comments16 min readLW link

Inoculation prompting: Instructing models to misbehave at train-time can improve run-time behavior

Sam Marks, Nevan Wichers, Daniel Tan, Aram Ebtekar, Jozdien, David Africa, Alex Mallen and Fabien Roger

8 Oct 2025 22:02 UTC

176 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

Recent Redwood Research project proposals

ryan_greenblatt, Buck, Julian Stastny, joshc, Alex Mallen, Adam Kaufman , Tyler Tracy, Aryan Bhatt and Joey Yudelson

14 Jul 2025 22:27 UTC

93 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don’t?

abhayesian, John Hughes, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, janus and Fabien Roger

8 Jul 2025 21:49 UTC

159 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Alex Mallen’s Shortform

Alex Mallen17 Jun 2025 16:31 UTC

4 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

A quick list of reward hacking interventions

Alex Mallen10 Jun 2025 0:58 UTC

52 points

5 comments3 min readLW link