Sid Black

Sid Black is a Research Scientist at UK's AI Safety Institute building autonomy evaluations. He previously co-founded EleutherAI and Conjecture, where his work focused on pretraining and evaluating large language models, interpretability, and programming agents. 

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His current research interests include:

- understanding and quantifying autonomy risks from AI agents.

- Identifying relevant autonomy threat models.

- Building new evaluations which increase our coverage of these threat models.

- Researching ways to increase resilience to AI risks, in the case of unknown or unpredictable threat models.

- Developing standards for, and the science of, AI agent evaluations.

- Predictive evaluations and White-box evaluations for AI agents.