Tim Hua

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Current MATS scholar working with Neel Nanda and Samuel Marks. Formerly an economist at Walmart.

Email me at the email available on my website at timhua.me if you want to reach me!

Can Models be Evaluation Aware Without Explicit Verbalization?

gersonkroiz, Greg Kocher and Tim Hua

8 Nov 2025 18:26 UTC

23 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Steering Evaluation-Aware Models to Act Like They Are Deployed

Tim Hua, andrq, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

30 Oct 2025 15:03 UTC

61 points

12 comments16 min readLW link

AI Psychosis, with Tim Hua and Adele Lopez

Austin Chen, Rachel Shu, Tim Hua and Adele Lopez

14 Oct 2025 0:27 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Tim Hua’s Shortform

Tim Hua2 Oct 2025 5:40 UTC

5 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC

365 points

46 comments26 min readLW link

Discovering Backdoor Triggers

andrq, Tim Hua, Sam Marks, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

19 Aug 2025 6:24 UTC

57 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Optimally Combining Probe Monitors and Black Box Monitors

Tim Hua, James Baskerville, BionicD0LPH1N, Mia Hopman, Aryan Bhatt and Tyler Tracy

27 Jul 2025 19:13 UTC

51 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

What is the functional role of SAE errors?

Taras Kutsyk, Tim Hua, woog and Andre Assis

20 Jun 2025 18:11 UTC

12 points

5 comments38 min readLW link

Causation, Correlation, and Confounding: A Graphical Explainer

Tim Hua9 Jun 2025 20:46 UTC

12 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

SHIFT relies on token-level features to de-bias Bias in Bios probes

Tim Hua19 Mar 2025 21:29 UTC

39 points

2 comments6 min readLW link