Mikita Balesni

Karma: 1,404

Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training

Mikita Balesni, Bronson Schoen, Marius Hobbhahn, Axel Højmark, AlexMeinke, Teun van der Weij, Jérémy Scheurer, Felix Hofstätter, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, rusheb, Andrei Matveiakin, jenny and alex.lloyd

17 Sep 2025 16:59 UTC

127 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(antischeming.ai)

Lessons from Studying Two-Hop Latent Reasoning

Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Owain_Evans

11 Sep 2025 17:53 UTC

68 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety

Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, Vlad Mikulik and Rohin Shah

15 Jul 2025 16:23 UTC

167 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(bit.ly)

How to evaluate control measures for LLM agents? A trajectory from today to superintelligence

Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, Buck and Geoffrey Irving

14 Apr 2025 16:45 UTC

29 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Claude Sonnet 3.7 (often) knows when it’s in alignment evaluations

Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer and Marius Hobbhahn

17 Mar 2025 19:11 UTC

189 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Ablations for “Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming”

AlexMeinke, Bronson Schoen, Marius Hobbhahn, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer and rusheb

17 Dec 2024 23:58 UTC

116 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming

Marius Hobbhahn, AlexMeinke, Bronson Schoen, rusheb, Jérémy Scheurer and Mikita Balesni

5 Dec 2024 22:11 UTC

211 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

Toward Safety Cases For AI Scheming

Mikita Balesni and Marius Hobbhahn

31 Oct 2024 17:20 UTC

60 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Me, Myself, and AI: the Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs

L Rudolf L, bilalchughtai, Jan Betley, kaivu, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, AlexMeinke, Owain_Evans and Marius Hobbhahn

8 Jul 2024 22:24 UTC

109 points

40 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Apollo Research 1-year update

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

29 May 2024 17:44 UTC

93 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

How I select alignment research projects

Ethan Perez, Henry Sleight and Mikita Balesni

10 Apr 2024 4:33 UTC

36 points

4 comments24 min readLW link

A starter guide for evals

Marius Hobbhahn, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, rusheb and AlexMeinke

8 Jan 2024 18:24 UTC

58 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(www.apolloresearch.ai)

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)

Paper: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

lberglund, Owain_Evans, Meg, Maximilian Kaufmann, Mikita Balesni, Asa Cooper Stickland and Tomek Korbak

23 Sep 2023 19:55 UTC

125 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Paper: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

Owain_Evans, Daniel Kokotajlo, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak, Asa Cooper Stickland, Meg and Maximilian Kaufmann

4 Sep 2023 12:54 UTC

111 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Announcing Apollo Research

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

30 May 2023 16:17 UTC

222 points

11 comments8 min readLW link