Dan Braun

Karma: 1,594

Dan Braun’s Shortform

Dan Braun25 May 2026 15:38 UTC

6 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Interpreting Language Model Parameters

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors and Lee Sharkey

5 May 2026 17:37 UTC

164 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.goodfire.ai)

I underestimated safety research speedups from safe AI

Dan Braun29 Jun 2025 13:29 UTC

38 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[Paper] Stochastic Parameter Decomposition

Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq and Dan Braun

27 Jun 2025 16:54 UTC

47 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Attribution-based parameter decomposition

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, StefanHex, jake_mendel and Lee Sharkey

25 Jan 2025 13:12 UTC

109 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(publications.apolloresearch.ai)

Implications of the AI Security Gap

Dan Braun8 Jan 2025 8:31 UTC

48 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Dan Braun’s Shortform

Dan Braun5 Oct 2024 12:26 UTC

5 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

A List of 45+ Mech Interp Project Ideas from Apollo Research’s Interpretability Team

Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, StefanHex and Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill

18 Jul 2024 14:15 UTC

127 points

18 comments18 min readLW link

Apollo Research 1-year update

Marius Hobbhahn, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, StefanHex, jake_mendel, Alex Meinke and rusheb

29 May 2024 17:44 UTC

93 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

The Local Interaction Basis: Identifying Computationally-Relevant and Sparsely Interacting Features in Neural Networks

Lucius Bushnaq, jake_mendel, Dan Braun, StefanHex, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Kaarel, Avery, Joern Stoehler, debrevitatevitae, Magdalena Wache and Marius Hobbhahn

20 May 2024 17:53 UTC

108 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Identifying Functionally Important Features with End-to-End Sparse Dictionary Learning

Dan Braun, Jordan Taylor, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill and Lee Sharkey

17 May 2024 16:25 UTC

57 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Understanding strategic deception and deceptive alignment

Marius Hobbhahn, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer and Dan Braun

25 Sep 2023 16:27 UTC

64 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

(www.apolloresearch.ai)

Announcing Apollo Research

Marius Hobbhahn, beren, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni and Jérémy Scheurer

30 May 2023 16:17 UTC

226 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

A small update to the Sparse Coding interim research report

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren

30 Apr 2023 19:54 UTC

62 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Navigating public AI x-risk hype while pursuing technical solutions

Dan Braun19 Feb 2023 12:22 UTC

18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Interim research report] Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren

13 Dec 2022 15:41 UTC

156 points

23 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens

Sid Black, Lee Sharkey, Connor Leahy, beren, CRG, merizian, Eric Winsor and Dan Braun

23 Sep 2022 17:58 UTC

149 points

29 comments33 min readLW link