Owain Evans
@OwainEvans_UK
Runs an AI Safety research group in Berkeley (Truthful AI) + Affiliate at UC Berkeley. Past: Oxford Uni, TruthfulQA, Reversal Curse. Prefer email to DM.
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Website with model responses and CoT:
Authors: @BetleyJan @j_treutlein @jan_dubinski_ @HarryMayne5 @karolgalazka @nielsrolf1 @anna_sztyber myself.
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New paper:
LLMs should give accurate answers.
Yet we find their answers are often biased to favor their own values and they don’t disclose this in their reasoning.
E.g. Claude’s answer below favors Anthropic.
On other tasks, Gemini & GPT-5.5 show similar biases.
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Our paper on Subliminal Learning was just published in Nature!
Last July we released our preprint. It showed that LLMs can transmit traits (e.g. liking owls) through data that is unrelated to that trait (numbers that appear meaningless).
What’s new?🧵
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