Sarah Ball

This is an adaptation of our ICML 2026 position paper (Outstanding Position Paper Award). Read the full paper here and see the project website here. Work together with Phil Hackemann. TLDR * "Alignment" is usually treated as a synonym for achieving good and safety in the world. But it isn't...

This work was performed as part of SPAR We use activation steering (Turner et al., 2023; Panickssery et al., 2023) to investigate whether different types of jailbreaks operate via similar internal mechanisms. We find preliminary evidence that they may. Our analysis includes a wide range of jailbreaks such as harmful...