Euan McLean

Communications Specialist

Euan is a communications specialist at FAR.AI. In the past he has completed a PhD in theoretical particle physics at the University of Glasgow, worked as a machine learning engineer at a cybersecurity startup, and worked as a strategy researcher at the Center on Long Term Risk. He is also a scriptwriter for the YouTube channel PBS Spacetime. His passion is reducing interpretive labor in AI alignment to speed up the progress of the field.

NEWs & publications

Beyond the Board: Exploring AI Robustness Through Go
December 21, 2023
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Can Go AIs be adversarially robust?
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Big Picture AI Safety
May 23, 2024
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We Found Exploits in GPT-4’s Fine-tuning & Assistants APIs
December 21, 2023
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Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs
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Codebook Features: Sparse and Discrete Interpretability for Neural Networks
October 19, 2023
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Codebook Features: Sparse and Discrete Interpretability for Neural Networks
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Even Superhuman Go AIs Have Surprising Failure Modes
July 15, 2023
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Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
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Can Go AIs be adversarially robust?
June 18, 2024
can-go-ais-be-adversarially-robust
Even Superhuman Go AIs Have Surprising Failure Modes
even-superhuman-go-ais-have-surprising-failure-modes
Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs
December 21, 2023
exploiting-novel-gpt-4-apis
We Found Exploits in GPT-4’s Fine-tuning & Assistants APIs
we-found-exploits-in-gpt-4s-fine-tuning-assistants-apis
Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better
June 15, 2023
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