Arthur Conmy

Karma: 2,228

Interpretability

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AIs will be used in “unhinged” configurations

Arthur Conmy11 Mar 2026 11:19 UTC

58 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Global CoT Analysis: Initial attempts to uncover patterns across many chains of thought

Riya Tyagi, daria, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

13 Jan 2026 20:40 UTC

52 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Announcing Gemma Scope 2

CallumMcDougall, Arthur Conmy, János Kramár, Tom Lieberum, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

22 Dec 2025 21:56 UTC

96 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Can we interpret latent reasoning using current mechanistic interpretability tools?

Bartosz Cywiński, Bart Bussmann, Arthur Conmy, Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

22 Dec 2025 16:56 UTC

44 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

How Can Interpretability Researchers Help AGI Go Well?

Neel Nanda, Josh Engels, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, bilalchughtai, CallumMcDougall, János Kramár and lewis smith

1 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

67 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability

Neel Nanda, Josh Engels, Arthur Conmy, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, bilalchughtai, CallumMcDougall, János Kramár and lewis smith

1 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

135 points

39 comments27 min readLW link

Current LLMs seem to rarely detect CoT tampering

Bartosz Cywiński, Bart Bussmann, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Josh Engels

19 Nov 2025 15:27 UTC

56 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Eliciting secret knowledge from language models

Bartosz Cywiński, Arthur Conmy and Sam Marks

2 Oct 2025 20:57 UTC

68 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Discovering Backdoor Triggers

andrq, Tim Hua, Sam Marks, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

19 Aug 2025 6:24 UTC

57 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Unfaithful chain-of-thought as nudged reasoning

Paul Bogdan, Uzay Macar, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

22 Jul 2025 22:35 UTC

54 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Thought Anchors: Which LLM Reasoning Steps Matter?

Uzay Macar, Paul Bogdan, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

2 Jul 2025 20:16 UTC

35 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(www.thought-anchors.com)

Negative Results for SAEs On Downstream Tasks and Deprioritising SAE Research (GDM Mech Interp Team Progress Update #2)

lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, CallumMcDougall, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

26 Mar 2025 19:07 UTC

117 points

15 comments29 min readLW link

(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)

The GDM AGI Safety+Alignment Team is Hiring for Applied Interpretability Research

Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

24 Feb 2025 2:17 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders

Can, Adam Karvonen, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Bloom, chanind, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Arthur Conmy, CallumMcDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Matthew Wearden, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

11 Dec 2024 6:30 UTC

82 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.neuronpedia.org)

Evolutionary prompt optimization for SAE feature visualization

neverix, Daniel Tan, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

14 Nov 2024 13:06 UTC

28 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

SAEs are highly dataset dependent: a case study on the refusal direction

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

7 Nov 2024 5:22 UTC

67 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Open Source Replication of Anthropic’s Crosscoder paper for model-diffing

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

27 Oct 2024 18:46 UTC

48 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

SAE features for refusal and sycophancy steering vectors

neverix, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

12 Oct 2024 14:54 UTC

29 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Base LLMs refuse too

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

29 Sep 2024 16:04 UTC

61 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

Extracting SAE task features for in-context learning

Dmitrii Kharlapenko, neverix, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

12 Aug 2024 20:34 UTC

31 points

1 comment9 min readLW link