Zachary Kenton

According to our database, Zachary Kenton authored at least 21 papers between 2017 and 2025.

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2025

An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security.

Rohin Shah, Alex Irpan, Alexander Matt Turner, Anna Wang, Arthur Conmy, David Lindner, Jonah Brown-Cohen, Lewis Ho, Neel Nanda, Raluca Ada Popa, Rishub Jain, Rory Greig, Samuel Albanie, Scott Emmons, Sebastian Farquhar, Sébastien Krier, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Sophie Bridgers, Tobi Ijitoye, Tom Everitt, Victoria Krakovna, Vikrant Varma, Vladimir Mikulik, Zachary Kenton, Dave Orr, Shane Legg, Noah D. Goodman, Allan Dafoe, Four Flynn, Anca D. Dragan

CoRR, April, 2025

2024

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants.

Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Verena Rieser, Hasan Iqbal, Nenad Tomasev, Ira Ktena, Zachary Kenton, Mikel Rodriguez, Seliem El-Sayed, Sasha Brown, Canfer Akbulut, Andrew Trask, Edward Hughes, A. Stevie Bergman, Renee Shelby, Nahema Marchal, Conor Griffin, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Laura Weidinger, Winnie Street, Benjamin Lange, Alex Ingerman, Alison Lentz, Reed Enger, Andrew Barakat, Victoria Krakovna, John Oliver Siy, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Amanda McCroskery, Vijay Bolina, Harry Law, Murray Shanahan, Lize Alberts, Borja Balle, Sarah de Haas, Yetunde Ibitoye, Allan Dafoe, Beth Goldberg, Sébastien Krier, Alexander Reese, Sims Witherspoon, Will Hawkins, Maribeth Rauh, Don Wallace, Matija Franklin, Josh A. Goldstein, Joel Lehman, Michael Klenk, Shannon Vallor, Courtney Biles, Meredith Ringel Morris, Helen King, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, William Isaac, James Manyika

CoRR, 2024

A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI.

Seliem El-Sayed, Canfer Akbulut, Amanda McCroskery, Geoff Keeling, Zachary Kenton, Zaria Jalan, Nahema Marchal, Arianna Manzini, Toby Shevlane, Shannon Vallor, Daniel Susser, Matija Franklin, Sophie Bridgers, Harry Law, Matthew Rahtz, Murray Shanahan, Michael Henry Tessler, Arthur Douillard, Tom Everitt, Sasha Brown

CoRR, 2024

On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs.

Zachary Kenton, Noah Y. Siegel, János Kramár, Jonah Brown-Cohen, Samuel Albanie, Jannis Bulian, Rishabh Agarwal, David Lindner, Yunhao Tang, Noah D. Goodman, Rohin Shah

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Discovering Agents (Abstract Reprint).

Zachary Kenton, Ramana Kumar, Sebastian Farquhar, Jonathan Richens, Matt MacDermott, Tom Everitt

Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023

Discovering agents.

Zachary Kenton, Ramana Kumar, Sebastian Farquhar, Jonathan Richens, Matt MacDermott, Tom Everitt

Artif. Intell., September, 2023

Challenges with unsupervised LLM knowledge discovery.

Sebastian Farquhar, Vikrant Varma, Zachary Kenton, Johannes Gasteiger, Vladimir Mikulik, Rohin Shah

CoRR, 2023

Explaining grokking through circuit efficiency.

Vikrant Varma, Rohin Shah, Zachary Kenton, János Kramár, Ramana Kumar

CoRR, 2023

2022

Goal Misgeneralization: Why Correct Specifications Aren't Enough For Correct Goals.

Rohin Shah, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar, Mary Phuong, Victoria Krakovna, Jonathan Uesato, Zac Kenton

CoRR, 2022

Safe Deep RL in 3D Environments using Human Feedback.

Matthew Rahtz, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar, Zachary Kenton, Shane Legg, Jan Leike

CoRR, 2022

Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models.

Laura Weidinger, Jonathan Uesato, Maribeth Rauh, Conor Griffin, Po-Sen Huang, John Mellor, Amelia Glaese, Myra Cheng, Borja Balle, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Courtney Biles, Sasha Brown, Zac Kenton, Will Hawkins, Tom Stepleton, Abeba Birhane, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Laura Rimell, William Isaac, Julia Haas, Sean Legassick, Geoffrey Irving, Iason Gabriel

Proceedings of the FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 21, 2022

2021

Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models.

Laura Weidinger, John Mellor, Maribeth Rauh, Conor Griffin, Jonathan Uesato, Po-Sen Huang, Myra Cheng, Mia Glaese, Borja Balle, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Zac Kenton, Sasha Brown, Will Hawkins, Tom Stepleton, Courtney Biles, Abeba Birhane, Julia Haas, Laura Rimell, Lisa Anne Hendricks, William Isaac, Sean Legassick, Geoffrey Irving, Iason Gabriel

CoRR, 2021

Alignment of Language Agents.

Zachary Kenton, Tom Everitt, Laura Weidinger, Iason Gabriel, Vladimir Mikulik, Geoffrey Irving

CoRR, 2021

2020

Imitating Interactive Intelligence.

Josh Abramson, Arun Ahuja, Arthur Brussee, Federico Carnevale, Mary Cassin, Stephen Clark, Andrew Dudzik, Petko Georgiev, Aurelia Guy, Tim Harley, Felix Hill, Alden Hung, Zachary Kenton, Jessica Landon, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Kory W. Mathewson, Alistair Muldal, Adam Santoro, Nikolay Savinov, Vikrant Varma, Greg Wayne, Nathaniel Wong, Chen Yan, Rui Zhu

CoRR, 2020

2019

A Systematic Comparison of Bayesian Deep Learning Robustness in Diabetic Retinopathy Tasks.

Angelos Filos, Sebastian Farquhar, Aidan N. Gomez, Tim G. J. Rudner, Zachary Kenton, Lewis Smith, Milad Alizadeh, Arnoud de Kroon, Yarin Gal

CoRR, 2019

Generalizing from a few environments in safety-critical reinforcement learning.

Zachary Kenton, Angelos Filos, Owain Evans, Yarin Gal

CoRR, 2019

On the Relation Between the Sharpest Directions of DNN Loss and the SGD Step Length.

Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer, Yoshua Bengio, Amos J. Storkey

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019

2018

DNN's Sharpest Directions Along the SGD Trajectory.

Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer, Yoshua Bengio, Amos J. Storkey

CoRR, 2018

Finding Flatter Minima with SGD.

Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer, Yoshua Bengio, Amos J. Storkey

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018

Width of Minima Reached by Stochastic Gradient Descent is Influenced by Learning Rate to Batch Size Ratio.

Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer, Yoshua Bengio, Amos J. Storkey

Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - ICANN 2018, 2018

2017

Three Factors Influencing Minima in SGD.

Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer, Yoshua Bengio, Amos J. Storkey

CoRR, 2017