Recent research projects by BASIS members

The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning

Nathaniel Li, Alexander Pan, Anjali Gopal, Summer Yue, Daniel Berrios, Alice Gatti, Justin D. Li, Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Shashwat Goel, Long Phan, Gabriel Mukobi8, Nathan Helm-Burger, Rassin Lababidi, Lennart Justen, Andrew B. Liu, Michael Chen, Isabelle Barrass, Oliver Zhang1, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Rishub Tamirisa, Bhrugu Bharathi, Adam Khoja, Zhenqi Zhao, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Cort B. Breuer, Samuel Marks, Oam Patel, Andy Zou, Mantas Mazeika, Zifan Wang, Palash Oswal, Weiran Lin, Adam A. Hunt, Justin Tienken-Harder, Kevin Y. Shih, Kemper Talley, John Guan, Russell Kaplan, Ian Steneker, David Campbell, Brad Jokubaitis, Alex Levinson, Jean Wang, William Qian, Kallol Krishna Karmakar, Steven Basart, Stephen Fitz, Mindy Levine, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Uday Tupakula, Vijay Varadharajan, Ruoyu Wang, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Jimmy Ba, Kevin M. Esvelt, Alexandr Wang, Dan Hendrycks

A Unified Framework for Model Editing

Akshat Gupta, Dev Sajnani, Gopala Anumanchipalli

HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal

Mantas Mazeika, Long Phan, Xuwang Yin, Andy Zou, Zifan Wang, Norman Mu, Elham Sakhaee, Nathaniel Li, Steven Basart, Bo Li, David Forsyth, Dan Hendrycks

Uncertainty Resolution in Misinformation Detection

Yury Orlovskiy, Camille Thibault, Anne Imouza, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany, Kellin Pelrine

Enhancing biosecurity with language models: defining research directions

Michael Chen, Martin Hole, Cameron Tice

Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

Andy Zou, Long Phan, Sarah Chen, James Campbell, Phillip Guo, Richard Ren, Alexander Pan, Xuwang Yin, Mantas Mazeika, Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Shashwat Goel, Nathaniel Li, Michael J. Byun, Zifan Wang, Alex Mallen, Steven Basart, Sanmi Koyejo, Dawn Song, Matt Fredrikson, J. Zico Kolter, Dan Hendrycks

AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions

Peter S. Park, Simon Goldstein, Aidan O'Gara, Michael Chen, Dan Hendrycks

Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark

Alexander Pan, Jun Shern Chan, Andy Zou, Nathaniel Li, Steven Basart, Thomas Woodside, Jonathan Ng, Hanlin Zhang, Scott Emmons, Dan Hendrycks

Emerging Vulnerabilities in Frontier Models: Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks (August 2024)

Tom Gibbs, Ethan Kosak-Hine, George Ingebretsen, Jason Zhang, Julius Broomfield, Sara Pieri, Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Reihaneh Rabbany, Kellin Pelrine