Kenneth Li

At a glance. Kenneth Li is listed as Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Interpretability, Language models and Safety and alignment. The source lists 1 official page, 1 listed honor and open-role pages for Thinking Machines Lab.

Summary

Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers.

Known for: Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task; Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model.

Works at

• Thinking Machines Lab 13 people in the wiki

Other documented roles

Not confirmed as current in the source profile.

• PhD student (completed; advised by Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas, and Hanspeter Pfister), Harvard University

Open roles

• Open roles at Thinking Machines Lab on USASI ↗

Related people

• John SchulmanAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
• Myle OttAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
• Mira MuratiAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
• Stephen RollerAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
• Danqi ChenAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
• Samuel MarksInterpretability · Safety and alignment
• Arthur ConmyInterpretability · Safety and alignment
• Margaret MitchellSafety and alignment · Language models
• Ilya SutskeverLanguage models · Safety and alignment
• Jacob AndreasLanguage models · Interpretability

Source and corrections

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