Owain_Evans

Karma: 3,336

https://owainevans.github.io/

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

Jan Betley and Owain_Evans

Feb 25, 2025, 5:39 PM

328 points

90 comments4 min readLW link

Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors

Martín Soto and Owain_Evans

Jan 22, 2025, 12:47 AM

130 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

New, improved multiple-choice TruthfulQA

Owain_Evans, James Chua and Steph Lin

Jan 15, 2025, 11:32 PM

72 points

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

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

90 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

LLMs can learn about themselves by introspection

Felix J Binder and Owain_Evans

Oct 18, 2024, 4:12 PM

102 points

38 comments9 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

Jul 8, 2024, 10:24 PM

109 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data

Johannes Treutlein and Owain_Evans

Jun 21, 2024, 3:54 PM

163 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How do LLMs give truthful answers? A discussion of LLM vs. human reasoning, ensembles & parrots

Owain_EvansMar 28, 2024, 2:34 AM

27 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Paper: Tell, Don’t Show- Declarative facts influence how LLMs generalize

Owain_Evans and AlexMeinke

Dec 19, 2023, 7:14 PM

45 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions

JanB, Owain_Evans and SoerenMind

Sep 28, 2023, 6:53 PM

187 points

39 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

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

Sep 23, 2023, 7:55 PM

121 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

Sep 4, 2023, 12:54 PM

109 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Paper: Forecasting world events with neural nets

Owain_Evans, Dan H and Joe Kwon

Jul 1, 2022, 7:40 PM

39 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Paper: Teaching GPT3 to express uncertainty in words

Owain_EvansMay 31, 2022, 1:27 PM

97 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

How do new models from OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic perform on TruthfulQA?

Owain_EvansFeb 26, 2022, 12:46 PM

44 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses

Owain_EvansJan 25, 2022, 4:45 AM

108 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”

Owain_EvansNov 28, 2021, 8:17 PM

186 points

32 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Truthful and honest AI

abergal, Nick_Beckstead and Owain_Evans

Oct 29, 2021, 7:28 AM

42 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

AMA on Truthful AI: Owen Cotton-Barratt, Owain Evans & co-authors

Owain_EvansOct 22, 2021, 4:23 PM

31 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

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