Josh Engels

Karma: 542

Brief Explorations in LLM Value Rankings

Tim Hua, Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

12 Jan 2026 18:16 UTC

36 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Steering RL Training: Benchmarking Interventions Against Reward Hacking

ariaw, Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

29 Dec 2025 21:55 UTC

47 points

10 comments19 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

33 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Prompting Models to Obfuscate Their CoT

Josh Engels and Felix Tudose

8 Dec 2025 21:00 UTC

15 points

4 comments7 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

66 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

131 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

53 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Negative Results on Group SAEs

Josh Engels6 May 2025 21:49 UTC

76 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Interim Research Report: Mechanisms of Awareness

Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

2 May 2025 20:29 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Scaling Laws for Scalable Oversight

Subhash Kantamneni, Josh Engels, David Baek and Max Tegmark

30 Apr 2025 12:13 UTC

37 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Josh Engels’s Shortform

Josh Engels30 Apr 2025 10:58 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Takeaways From Our Recent Work on SAE Probing

Josh Engels, Subhash Kantamneni, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

3 Mar 2025 19:50 UTC

30 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

SAE Probing: What is it good for?

Subhash Kantamneni, Josh Engels, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

1 Nov 2024 19:23 UTC

34 points

0 comments11 min readLW link