
Ian McKenzie
Research Engineer
Ian McKenzie is a research engineer at FAR.AI, where he previously ran the Inverse Scaling Prize. Previously, Ian worked on building evaluations for frontier models with the Policy Research team at OpenAI and has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.
NEWs & publications
Layered AI Defenses Have Holes: Vulnerabilities and Key Recommendations
July 2, 2025
defense-in-depth
STACK: Adversarial Attacks on LLM Safeguard Pipelines
stack-adversarial-attacks-on-llm-safeguard-pipelines
ClearHarm: A more challenging jailbreak dataset
June 23, 2025
clearharm-a-more-challenging-jailbreak-dataset
ClearHarm: A more challenging jailbreak dataset
clearharm-a-more-challenging-jailbreak-dataset
Does Robustness Improve with Scale?
July 23, 2024
does-robustness-improve-with-scale
Exploring Scaling Trends in LLM Robustness
exploring-scaling-trends-in-llm-robustness
STACK: Adversarial Attacks on LLM Safeguard Pipelines
July 2, 2025
stack-adversarial-attacks-on-llm-safeguard-pipelines
Layered AI Defenses Have Holes: Vulnerabilities and Key Recommendations
defense-in-depth
ClearHarm: A more challenging jailbreak dataset
June 23, 2025
clearharm-a-more-challenging-jailbreak-dataset
ClearHarm: A more challenging jailbreak dataset
clearharm-a-more-challenging-jailbreak-dataset
Exploring Scaling Trends in LLM Robustness
July 26, 2024
exploring-scaling-trends-in-llm-robustness
Does Robustness Improve with Scale?
does-robustness-improve-with-scale
Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better
June 15, 2023
inverse-scaling-when-bigger-isnt-better