Sam Bowman

Karma: 1,814

https://cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman/

Putting up Bumpers

Sam BowmanApr 23, 2025, 4:05 PM

50 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Automated Researchers Can Subtly Sandbag

gasteigerjo, Akbir Khan, Sam Bowman, Vlad Mikulik, Ethan Perez and Fabien Roger

Mar 26, 2025, 7:13 PM

44 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

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

Mar 13, 2025, 7:18 PM

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

Dec 18, 2024, 5:19 PM

483 points

75 comments10 min readLW link

Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models

David Duvenaud, Joe Benton, Sam Bowman, evhub, mishajw, Eric Christiansen, HoldenKarnofsky, Ethan Perez and Buck

Oct 18, 2024, 10:33 PM

95 points

56 comments6 min readLW link

(assets.anthropic.com)

The Checklist: What Succeeding at AI Safety Will Involve

Sam BowmanSep 3, 2024, 6:18 PM

151 points

49 comments22 min readLW link

(sleepinyourhat.github.io)

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents

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

Apr 23, 2024, 9:10 PM

133 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations

Arjun Panickssery, Sam Bowman and Shi Feng

Apr 17, 2024, 9:09 PM

45 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(tiny.cc)

Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers

Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

Feb 7, 2024, 9:28 PM

89 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Measuring and Improving the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning

Ansh Radhakrishnan, tamera, karinanguyen, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

Jul 18, 2023, 4:36 PM

111 points

15 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences

Tomek Korbak, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

Feb 21, 2023, 5:57 PM

135 points

20 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Inverse Scaling Prize: Second Round Winners

Ian McKenzie, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

Jan 24, 2023, 8:12 PM

58 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

AI Safety and Neighboring Communities: A Quick-Start Guide, as of Summer 2022

Sam BowmanSep 1, 2022, 7:15 PM

76 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Survey of NLP Researchers: NLP is contributing to AGI progress; major catastrophe plausible

Sam BowmanAug 31, 2022, 1:39 AM

91 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Artificial Sandwiching: When can we test scalable alignment protocols without humans?

Sam BowmanJul 13, 2022, 9:14 PM

42 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize ($250k Prize Pool)

Ethan Perez, Ian McKenzie and Sam Bowman

Jun 27, 2022, 3:58 PM

171 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Jobs: Help scale up LM alignment research at NYU

Sam BowmanMay 9, 2022, 2:12 PM

60 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A Small Negative Result on Debate

Sam BowmanApr 12, 2022, 6:19 PM

42 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

NLP Position Paper: When Combatting Hype, Proceed with Caution

Sam BowmanOct 15, 2021, 8:57 PM

46 points

14 comments1 min readLW link