Tamkin, Alex

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

Bommasani, R., Hudson, D. A., Adeli, E., Altman, R., Arora, S., von Arx, S., Bernstein, M. S., Bohg, J., Bosselut, A., Brunskill, E., et al. (2021) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIArtificial Intelligence Applications

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Understanding the Capabilities, Limitations, and Societal Impact of Large Language Models

Tamkin, A., Brundage, M., Clark, J., & Ganguli, D. (2021) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AITopic Modeling

Cited by 135

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

Shen, J. H., & Tamkin, A. (2026) · arXiv

Teaching and Learning ProgrammingSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 120

Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models

Durmus, E., Nguyen, K., Liao, T. I., Schiefer, N., Askell, A., Bakhtin, A., Chen, C., Hatfield-Dodds, Z., Hernandez, D., Joseph, N., et al. (2023) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AITopic Modeling

Cited by 48

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet

Templeton, A., Conerly, T., Marcus, J., Lindsey, J., Bricken, T., Chen, B., Pearce, A., Citro, C., Ameisen, E., Jones, A., et al. (2026) · arXiv

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)Topic Modeling

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Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions

Grosse, R., Bae, J., Anil, C., Elhage, N., Tamkin, A., Tajdini, A., Steiner, B., Li, D., Durmus, E., Perez, E., et al. (2023) · arXiv

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

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Many-shot Jailbreaking

Anil, C., Durmus, E., Panickssery, N., Sharma, M., Benton, J., Kundu, S., Batson, J., Tong, M., Mu, J., Ford, D., et al. (2024) · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37

Adversarial Robustness in Machine LearningSecurity and Verification in Computing

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Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations

Handa, K., Tamkin, A., McCain, M., Huang, S., Durmus, E., Heck, S., Mueller, J., Hong, J., Ritchie, S., Belonax, T., et al. (2025) · arXiv

Labor market dynamics and wage inequalityArtificial Intelligence Applications

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Evaluating and Mitigating Discrimination in Language Model Decisions

Tamkin, A., Askell, A., Lovitt, L., Durmus, E., Joseph, N., Kravec, S., Nguyen, K., Kaplan, J., & Ganguli, D. (2023) · arXiv

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

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Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models

Denison, C., MacDiarmid, M., Barez, F., Duvenaud, D., Kravec, S., Marks, S., Schiefer, N., Soklaski, R., Tamkin, A., Kaplan, J., et al. (2024) · arXiv

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

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