Overdue job update — I am now:
- A Visiting Scientist at @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, supporting AI safety & interpretability
- A Visiting Researcher at Stanford NLP Group, working with @cgpotts.bsky.social

So grateful to keep working in this fascinating area—and to start supporting others too :)

colab: colab.research.google.com/drive/11Ep4l...

For aficionados, the post also contains some musings on “tuning the random seed” and how to communicate uncertainty associated with this process

Are p-values missing in AI research?

Bootstrapping makes model comparisons easy!

Here's a new blog/colab with code for:
- Bootstrapped p-values and confidence intervals
- Combining variance from BOTH sample size and random seed (eg prompts)
- Handling grouped test data

Link ⬇️

🚨 Introducing our @tmlrorg.bsky.social paper “Unlearning Sensitive Information in Multimodal LLMs: Benchmark and Attack-Defense Evaluation”
We present UnLOK-VQA, a benchmark to evaluate unlearning in vision-and-language models, where both images and text may encode sensitive or private information.

AISI has a new grant program for funding academic and nonprofit-affiliated research in (1) safeguards to mitigate misuse risk and (2) AI control and alignment to mitigate loss of control risk. Please apply! 🧵

www.aisi.gov.uk/grants

🎉Very excited that our work on Persuasion-Balanced Training has been accepted to #NAACL2025! We introduce a multi-agent tree-based method for teaching models to balance:

1️⃣ Accepting persuasion when it helps
2️⃣ Resisting persuasion when it hurts (e.g. misinformation)

arxiv.org/abs/2410.14596
🧵 1/4

Anthropic Alignment Science is sharing a list of research directions we are interested in seeing more work on!

Blog post below 👇

Ah thanks, fixed!

New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:

We invite nominations to join the ACL2025 PC as reviewer or area chair(AC). Review process through ARR Feb cycle. Tentative timeline: Review 1-20 Mar 2025, Rebuttal is 26-31 Mar 2025. ACs must be available throughout the Feb cycle. Nominations by 20 Dec 2024:
shorturl.at/TaUh9 #NLProc #ACL2025NLP

Emergency AC timeline is actually early April, after emergency reviewing. What the regular AC timeline is, not sure exactly, probably end of March/start of April for bulk of work

Recruiting reviewers + ACs for ACL 2025 in Interpretability and Analysis of NLP Models
- DM me if you are interested in emergency reviewer/AC roles for March 18th to 26th
- Self-nominate for positions here (review period is March 1 through March 20): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

I will be at NeurIPS next week!

You can find me at the Wed 11am poster session, Hall A-C #4503, talking about linguistic calibration of LLMs via multi-agent communication games.