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Jan_Wehner
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I'm a technical governance researcher at the Frontier Security team of the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. I previously worked on interpretability, ML security and value alignment.
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TLDR: Will AI-automation first speed up capabilities or safety research? I forecast that most areas of capabilities research will see a 10x speedup before safety research. This is primarily because capabilities research has clearer feedback signals and relies more on engineering than on novel insights. To change this, researchers should...
TL;DR: The EU’s Code of Practice (CoP) mandates AI companies to conduct state-of-the-art Risk Modelling. However, the current SoTA is has severe flaws. By creating risk models and improving methodology, we can enhance the quality of risk management performed by AI companies. This is a neglected area, hence we encourage...
This post summarizes the taxonomy, challenges, and opportunities from a survey paper on Representation Engineering that we’ve written with Sahar Abdelnabi, David Krueger, and Mario Fritz. If you’re familiar with RepE feel free to skip to the “Challenges” and “Opportunities” sections. What is Representation Engineering? Representation Engineering (RepE) is a...
Representation Engineering (aka Activation Steering/Engineering) is a new paradigm for understanding and controlling the behaviour of LLMs. Instead of changing the prompt or weights of the LLM, it does this by directly intervening on the activations of the network during a forward pass. Furthermore, it improves our ability to interpret...