Monte M

Karma: 1,866

Auditing language models for hidden objectives

Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, dmz, Sam Bowman, Hoagy, Carson Denison, Kei, 7vik, Akbir Khan, Austin Meek, Euan Ong, Christopher Olah, Fabien Roger, jeanne_, Meg, Drake Thomas, Adam Jermyn, Monte M and evhub

13 Mar 2025 19:18 UTC

141 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

Alignment Faking in Large Language Models

ryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman and Buck

18 Dec 2024 17:19 UTC

489 points

75 comments10 min readLW link

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents

Monte M, Carson Denison, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, David Duvenaud, Sam Bowman, Ethan Perez and evhub

23 Apr 2024 21:10 UTC

133 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

evhub, Carson Denison, Meg, Monte M, David Duvenaud, Nicholas Schiefer and Ethan Perez

12 Jan 2024 19:51 UTC

305 points

95 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Paper: Understanding and Controlling a Maze-Solving Policy Network

TurnTrout, Ulisse Mini, peligrietzer, mrinank_sharma, Austin Meek, Monte M and lisathiergart

13 Oct 2023 1:38 UTC

70 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

6 Sep 2023 17:21 UTC

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Open problems in activation engineering

TurnTrout, woog, lisathiergart, Monte M and Ulisse Mini

24 Jul 2023 19:46 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(coda.io)

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

TurnTrout, Monte M, David Udell, lisathiergart and Ulisse Mini

13 May 2023 18:42 UTC

439 points

98 comments50 min readLW link 1 review

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell

11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC

334 points

28 comments23 min readLW link