Are AI systems learning to “game” their safety tests? The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has awarded a grant to Principal Investigators Sahar Abdelnabi, @maksym-andr.bsky.social, and @jonasgeiping.bsky.social. Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...

ELLIS Institute PIs supported by UK government to research AI safety

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The ELLIS Institute is proud to announce that Coefficient Giving is supporting our Principal Investigator Maksym Andriushchenko with a grant of $1,000,000 to fund his research on AI safety. Find out more on our website: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/pi-m...

PI Maksym Andriushchenko awarded funding from Coefficient Giving

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👏 Give a big round of applause to our 2025 PhD Award Winners! The two main winners are: @zhijingjin.bsky.social & @maksym-andr.bsky.social. Two runners-up were selected additionally: Siwei Zhang & Elias Frantar Learn even more about each outstanding scientist: https://bit.ly/4pm2Eji

📣 Incredibly excited to participate in writing the International AI Safety Report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, as chapter lead for the capabilities chapter! ⚖️ AI is progressing so rapidly that yearly updates are no longer sufficient. 1/3

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AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️ (1/10)

A new recording of our FridayTalks@Tübingen series is online! AI Safety and Alignment by @maksym-andr.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/7WRW8MDQ8bk

AI Safety and Alignment - [Maksym Andriushchenko]

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🚨 Incredibly excited to share that I'm starting my research group focusing on AI safety and alignment at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in September 2025! 🚨 1/n

🚨Excited to release OS-Harm! 🚨 The safety of computer use agents has been largely overlooked. We created a new safety benchmark based on OSWorld for measuring 3 broad categories of harm: 1. deliberate user misuse, 2. prompt injections, 3. model misbehavior.

🚨Excited to share our new work! 1. Not only GPT-4 but also other frontier LLMs have memorized the same set of NYT articles from the lawsuit. 2. Very large models, particularly with >100B parameters, have memorized significantly more. 🧵1/n

📢 I'll be at NeurIPS 🇨🇦 from Tuesday to Sunday! Let me know if you're also coming and want to meet. Would love to discuss anything related to AI safety/generalization. Also, I'm on the academic job market, so would be happy to discuss that as well! My application package: andriushchenko.me. 🧵1/4

Mindblowing: EPFL PhD student @maksym-andr.bsky.social, winner of best CS thesis award, showed that leading hashtag#AI models are not robust to simple adaptive jailbreaking attacks. Indeed, he managed to jailbraik all models with a 100% success rate 🤯 Jailbraking paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.02151

really feels like Twitter circa 2018. good old days... 😀