David Lindner

Karma: 483

Alignment researcher at Google DeepMind

Early Signs of Steganographic Capabilities in Frontier LLMs

Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Artur Zolkowski, robert mccarthy and David Lindner

Jul 4, 2025, 4:36 PM

30 points

9 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

MONA: Three Month Later—Updates and Steganography Without Optimization Pressure

David Lindner and Vikrant Varma

Apr 12, 2025, 11:15 PM

31 points

11 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Can LLMs learn Steganographic Reasoning via RL?

robert mccarthy, Vasil Georgiev, Steven Basart and David Lindner

Apr 11, 2025, 4:33 PM

29 points

10 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

MONA: Managed Myopia with Approval Feedback

Seb Farquhar, David Lindner and Rohin Shah

Jan 23, 2025, 12:24 PM

81 points

26 votes

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30 comments9 min readLW link

On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs

zac_kenton, Noah Siegel, janos, Jonah Brown-Cohen, Samuel Albanie, David Lindner and Rohin Shah

Jul 8, 2024, 8:59 AM

49 points

17 votes

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18 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

VLM-RM: Specifying Rewards with Natural Language

ChengCheng, David Lindner and Ethan Perez

Oct 23, 2023, 2:11 PM

20 points

6 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(far.ai)

Practical Pitfalls of Causal Scrubbing

Jérémy Scheurer, Phil3, tony, jacquesthibs and David Lindner

Mar 27, 2023, 7:47 AM

87 points

36 votes

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17 comments13 min readLW link

Threat Model Literature Review

zac_kenton, Rohin Shah, David Lindner, Vikrant Varma, Vika, Mary Phuong, Ramana Kumar and Elliot Catt

Nov 1, 2022, 11:03 AM

79 points

42 votes

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4 comments25 min readLW link

Clarifying AI X-risk

zac_kenton, Rohin Shah, David Lindner, Vikrant Varma, Vika, Mary Phuong, Ramana Kumar and Elliot Catt

Nov 1, 2022, 11:03 AM

127 points

67 votes

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24 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

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