James Chua

Karma: 462

https://jameschua.net/about/

Backdoor awareness and misaligned personas in reasoning models

James Chua, Owain_Evans and Jan Betley

Jun 20, 2025, 11:38 PM

34 points

12 votes

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8 comments6 min readLW link

Thought Crime: Backdoors & Emergent Misalignment in Reasoning Models

James Chua and Owain_Evans

Jun 16, 2025, 4:43 PM

68 points

22 votes

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2 comments8 min readLW link

OpenAI Responses API changes models’ behavior

Jan Betley and James Chua

Apr 11, 2025, 1:27 PM

53 points

24 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

New, improved multiple-choice TruthfulQA

Owain_Evans, James Chua and Steph Lin

Jan 15, 2025, 11:32 PM

72 points

28 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Inference-Time-Compute: More Faithful? A Research Note

James Chua and Owain_Evans

Jan 15, 2025, 4:43 AM

69 points

21 votes

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10 comments11 min readLW link

Tips On Empirical Research Slides

James Chua, John Hughes, Ethan Perez and Owain_Evans

Jan 8, 2025, 5:06 AM

93 points

37 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link

James Chua’s Shortform

James ChuaMay 23, 2024, 6:13 AM

2 points

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

My MATS Summer 2023 experience

James ChuaMar 20, 2024, 11:26 AM

29 points

16 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

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A library for safety research in conditioning on RLHF tasks

James ChuaFeb 26, 2023, 2:50 PM

10 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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