Hi! I'm Nat, a researcher at Scale AI evaluating and assuring the security of ML systems. Previously, I was an early researcher and technical writer at the Center for AI Safety and studied computer science at UC Berkeley 🐻.
Research (Primary)
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Humanity's Last Exam
L. Phan*, A. Gatti*, Z. Han*, N. Li*, J. Hu, H. Zhang, A. Khoja, R. Kim, J. Hausenloy, O. Zhang, M. Mazeika, [633 not listed], S. Yue**, A. Wang**, D. Hendrycks** arXiv Preprint TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / dataset / New York Times
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LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet
N. Li, Z. Han, I. Steneker, W. Primack, R. Goodside, H. Zhang, Z. Wang, C. Menghini, S. Yue NeurIPS 2024 Red Teaming Workshop (Oral) TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / dataset
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The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use with Unlearning
N. Li*, A. Pan*, A. Gopal, S. Yue, D. Berrios, A. Gatti, J. Li, A. Dombrowski, S. Goel, L. Phan, G. Mukobi, N. Helm-Burger, R. Lababidi, L. Justen, A. Liu, M. Chen, I. Barrass, O. Zhang, X. Zhu, R. Tamirisa, B. Bharathi, A. Khoja, Z. Zhao, A. Herbert-Voss, C. Breuer, S. Marks, O. Patel, A. Zou, M. Mazeika, Z. Wang, P. Oswal, W. Lin, A. Hunt, J. Tienken-Harder, K. Shih, K. Talley, J. Guan, R. Kaplan, I. Steneker, D. Campbell, B. Jokubaitis, A. Levinson, J. Wang, W. Qian, K. Karmakar, S. Basart, S. Fitz, M. Levine, P. Kumaraguru, U. Tupakula, V. Varadharajan, Y. Shoshitaishvili, J. Ba, K. Esvelt, A. Wang**, D. Hendrycks** ICML 2024 TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / code / TIME / Scale AI blog / CAIS blog
Research (Supporting)
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HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal
M. Mazeika, L. Phan, X. Yin, A. Zou, Z. Wang, N. Mu, E. Sakhaee, N. Li, S. Basart, B. Li, D. Forsyth, D. Hendrycks ICML 2024 TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / code
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Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency
A. Zou, L. Phan*, S. Chen*, J. Campbell*, P. Guo*, R. Ren*, A. Pan, X. Yin, M. Mazeika, A. Dombrowski, S. Goel, N. Li, M. Byun, Z. Wang, A. Mallen, S. Basart, S. Koyejo, D. Song, M. Fredrikson, Z. Kolter, D. Hendrycks arXiv Preprint TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / code
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Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark
A. Pan*, C. Shern*, A. Zou*, N. Li, S. Basart, T. Woodside, J. Ng, H. Zhang, S. Emmons, D. Hendrycks ICML 2023 (Oral) TL;DR ⬆️ / paper / website / code

About

I’m forever grateful to be supervised by Dan Hendrycks and Summer Yue, and mentored by Alexander Pan, Cristina Menghini, Steven Basart, and Zifan Wang. Outside of work, I’m a fan of overhang bouldering, legislative redistricting, playing by ear, Porter Robinson, and the United States 🇺🇸!