Kieron Kretschmar

Code and data available at github.com/KieronKretschmar/latent-awareness TL;DR * We take two eval-gaming model organisms (Hua et al.'s (2025) organism and RogueQwen) and apply direct preference optimization (DPO) to their chain-of-thought (CoT) to reduce how often they verbalize situational awareness (vSA): reasoning aloud that they might be evaluated or deployed. *...

In this post I reflect on my experience in participating at a ML4Good (UK, March 2024) bootcamp. I am writing this mainly for my own benefit - to reflect and to start making a habit of engaging with the community on lesswrong. But also to help future participants. If there...