Peer-reviewed papers, workshop contributions, preprints and policy work. For the most up-to-date list, see Google Scholar .
Topic All Interpretability Safety & Alignment Technical Governance Societal Impact
Type All Conference Journal Workshop Preprint Policy
ICML 2026 (Position Paper)
Token Taxes Can Mitigate AI's Economic Risks
L. Irwin, T.-Y. Wu, F. Barez
ICML 2026
Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs
A. Simhi, F. Barez , M. Tutek, Y. Belinkov, S. B. Cohen
ICML 2026
AutoControl Arena: Synthesizing Executable Test Environments for Frontier AI Risk Evaluation
C. Li, P. Lu, X. Pan, F. Barez , M. Yang
EMNLP 2026
Same Answer, Different Representations: Hidden Instability in VLMs
F. A. Wani, A. Suglia, R. Saxena, A. P. Gema, W. C. Kwan, F. Barez , et al.
ICML 2026 (Position Paper)
Interpretability Can Be Actionable
H. Orgad, F. Barez , T. Haklay, I. Lee, M. Mosbach, A. Reusch, N. Saphra, et al.
Preprint
When AI Systems Learn During Deployment, Our Safety Evaluations Break
F. Barez
TAIGR Workshop, ICML 2026
What AI Governance Needs from Mechanistic Auditing
CTB Workshop, ICML 2026
Uplifting Human Decision Making in AI Evaluation by Automating Benchmark Design
ICML 2026 (Position Paper, Spotlight)
There Are Futures That Benchmark-Driven AI Cannot See
S. Lotfi, A. Iranmanesh, L. Naghashyar, A. Shirali, F.N. Haredasht, S. Koyejo, P. Torr, Y.S. Lee, F. Barez , J. Lehman, P. Norvig, A. Narayanan
ICLR 2026 Workshop on Data-Centric Foundation Models (Oral)
The Capability Frontier: Benchmarks Miss 82% of Model Performance
B. Fowler, R. Smith, D. T. Graviet, W. Myers, J. Greaves, N. F. Oozeer, A. García, et al.
Eval Eval Workshop, ACL 2026
Rigorous Interpretation Is a Form of Evaluation
FoGen Workshop, ICML 2026
Quantifying the Effect of Test Set Contamination on Generative Evaluations
R. Schaeffer, J. Kazdan, B. Abbasi, K. Z. Liu, B. Miranda, A. Ahmed, F. Barez , et al.
ACL 2026
Make Mechanistic Interpretability Auditable: A Call to Develop Guidelines via Continuous Collaborative Reviewing
M. Lan, N.F. Oozeer, C. Bandi, P. Quirke, A. Meek, F. Barez , A. Abdullah
ICML 2026 (Position Paper, Spotlight)
Don't Just "Fix it in Post": A Science of AI Must Study Learning Dynamics
S. Biderman, M.A. Khan, N. Mireshghallah, C. Arnett, F. Barez , N. Saphra
Science Robotics, 2026
Beyond Alignment: Why Robotic Foundation Models Need Context-Aware Safety
A. Robey, Z. Ravichandran, E.K. Jones, J. Perlo, F. Barez , V. Kumar, J.Z. Kolter, H. Hassani, G.J. Pappas
AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford, 2026
Automated Interpretability-Driven Model Auditing and Control: A Research Agenda
F. Barez
MLCommons
Agentic Product Maturity Ladder V0.1
S. McGregor, D. Nathani, L. Saouma, F. Barez , A. Foundjem, et al.
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thicker Models of Value
R. Lowe, J. Edelman, T. Zhi-Xuan, O. Klingefjord, E. Hain, V. Wang, A. Sarkar, F. Barez , et al.
NeurIPS 2025
Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks
Y. Zhu, T. Jin, Y. Pruksachatkun, A. Zhang, S. Liu, S. Cui, S. Kapoor, F. Barez , et al.
NeurIPS 2025
Emerging Risks from Embodied AI Require Urgent Policy Action
J. Perlo, A. Robey, F. Barez , J. Mökander
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
Context Matters: Analyzing the Generalizability of Linear Probing and Steering Across Diverse Scenarios
I. Agarwal, S. Navani, F. Barez
EMNLP 2025
Trust Me, I'm Wrong: High-Certainty Hallucinations in LLMs
A. Simhi, I. Itzhak, F. Barez , G. Stanovsky, Y. Belinkov
EMNLP 2025
Same Question, Different Words: A Latent Adversarial Framework for Prompt Robustness
T. Fu, F. Barez
EMNLP 2025
Precise In-Parameter Concept Erasure in Large Language Models
Y. Gur-Arieh, C. Suslik, Y. Hong, F. Barez , M. Geva
EMNLP 2025
Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models
N. Oozeer, L. Marks, F. Barez , A. Abdullah
COLM 2025
Rethinking Safety in LLM Fine-Tuning: An Optimization Perspective
M. Kim, J. M. Kwak, L. Alssum, B. Ghanem, P. Torr, D. Krueger, F. Barez †, A. Bibi†
ICLR 2026
Towards Understanding Subliminal Learning: When and How Hidden Biases Transfer
S. Schrodi, E. Kempf, F. Barez , T. Brox
ICML 2026
Query Circuits: Explaining How Language Models Answer User Prompts
T.-Y. Wu, F. Barez
ICLR 2026
Beyond Linear Probes: Dynamic Safety Monitoring for Language Models
J. Oldfield, P. Torr, I. Patras, A. Bibi, F. Barez
ICML 2025
Scaling Sparse Feature Circuit Finding for In-Context Learning
D. Kharlapenko, S. Shabalin, F. Barez , A. Conmy, N. Nanda
ICML 2025
PoisonBench: Assessing Large Language Model Vulnerability to Data Poisoning
T. Fu*, M. Sharma, P. Torr, S. B. Cohen, D. Krueger, F. Barez *
ICML 2025 Workshop
Do Sparse Autoencoders Generalize? A Case Study of Answerability
L. Heindrich, P. Torr, F. Barez , V. Thost
FAccT 2025
In Which Areas of Technical AI Safety Could Geopolitical Rivals Cooperate?
B. Bucknall, S. Siddiqui, L. Thurnherr, C. McGurk, B. Harack, A. Reuel, F. Barez , et al.
ICLR 2025
Towards Interpreting Visual Information Processing in Vision-Language Models
C. Neo, L. Ong, P. Torr, M. Geva, D. Krueger, F. Barez
ICLR 2025 Workshop
Rethinking AI Cultural Alignment
M. Bravansky, F. Trhlík, F. Barez
Under Review
Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability
F. Barez , T.-Y. Wu, I. Arcuschin, M. Lan, V. Wang, N. Siegel, N. Collignon, C. Neo, I. Lee, A. Paren, A. Bibi, R. Trager, D. Fornasiere, J. Yan, Y. Elazar, Y. Bengio
AI Governance Initiative, Oxford
Verification for International AI Governance
B. Harack, R. Trager, A. Reuel, D. Manheim, M. Brundage, O. Aarne, et al.
Under Review
Toward Resisting AI-Enabled Authoritarianism
F. Barez , I. Friend, K. Reid, I. Krawczuk, V. Wang, J. Mökander, P. Torr, J. Morse, R. Trager
Preprint
Safety Frameworks and Standards: A Comparative Analysis to Advance Risk Management of Frontier AI
M. Ziosi, J. Gealy, M. Plueckebaum, D. Kossack, S. Campos, L. Saouma, F. Barez , et al.
Preprint
Plan B: Training LLMs to Fail Less Severely
J. Stastny, N. Warncke, D. Xu, A. Lynch, F. Barez , H. Sleight, E. Perez
Under Review
Open Problems in Machine Unlearning for AI Safety
F. Barez , T. Fu, A. Prabhu, S. Casper, A. Sanyal, A. Bibi, A. O'Gara, R. Kirk, B. Bucknall, T. Fist, L. Ong, P. Torr, K.-Y. Lam, R. Trager, D. Krueger, S. Mindermann, J. Hernández-Orallo, M. Geva, Y. Gal
SoLaR Workshop, NeurIPS 2024
Jailbreak Defense in a Narrow Domain: Limitations of Existing Methods and a New Transcript-Classifier Approach
T. T. Wang, J. Hughes, H. Sleight, R. Schaeffer, R. Agrawal, F. Barez , et al.
NeurIPS 2024
Interpreting Learned Feedback Patterns in Large Language Models
L. Marks*, A. Abdullah*, C. Neo, R. Arike, D. Krueger, P. Torr, F. Barez *
NeurIPS 2025
Best-of-N Jailbreaking
J. Hughes, S. Price, A. Lynch, R. Schaeffer, F. Barez , S. Koyejo, H. Sleight, E. Jones, E. Perez
EMNLP 2024
Towards Interpretable Sequence Continuation: Analyzing Shared Circuits in Large Language Models
M. Lan, P. Torr, F. Barez
EMNLP 2024
Interpreting Context Look-ups in Transformers: Investigating Attention-MLP Interactions
C. Neo*, S. B. Cohen, F. Barez *
ACL 2024
Large Language Models Relearn Removed Concepts
M. Lo*, S. B. Cohen, F. Barez *
ICML 2024 Workshop
Visualizing Neural Network Imagination
N. Wichers, V. Tao, R. Volpato, F. Barez
Workshop 2024
The Scaling Behavior of Large Language Models
A. V. Miceli-Barone, F. Barez , S. B. Cohen, E. Voita, U. Germann, M. Lukasik
ICML 2024
Position: Near to Mid-Term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI
F. Eiras, A. Petrov, B. Vidgen, C. S. de Witt, F. Pizzati, K. Elkins, F. Barez , et al.
ICML 2024
Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML 2024
F. Barez , M. Geva, L. Chan, A. Geiger, K. Yin, N. Nanda, et al.
ICLR 2024
Understanding Addition in Transformers
P. Quirke, F. Barez
Preprint
What Does GPT Store in Its MLP Weights? A Case Study of Long-Range Dependencies
T. Clark, S. B. Cohen, F. Barez
SSRN 4937924
Safeguarding AI in Finance: Lessons for Regulated Industries
F. Barez , L. Marks
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop
Measuring Value Alignment
F. Barez , P. Torr
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop
DeepDecipher: Accessing and Investigating Neuron Activation in Large Language Models
A. Garde, E. Kran, F. Barez
ACL 2023
The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail: Language Models Do Not Recognize Identifier Swaps in Python
A. V. M. Barone*, F. Barez *, I. Konstas, S. B. Cohen
ACL 2023
Detecting Edit Failures in Large Language Models: An Improved Specificity Benchmark
J. Hoelscher-Obermaier*, J. Persson*, E. Kran, I. Konstas, F. Barez *
ICLR 2023 Workshop
Neuron to Graph: Interpreting Language Model Neurons at Scale
A. Foote*, N. Nanda, E. Kran, I. Konstas, S. Cohen, F. Barez *
ICML 2023
Value-Evolutionary-Based Reinforcement Learning
P. Li, J. Hao, H. Tang, Y. Zheng, F. Barez
Policy Response
The Alan Turing Institute's Response to the House of Lords Large Language Models Call for Evidence
F. Barez , P. H. S. Torr, A. Petrov, C. Ashurst, J. Ding, A. Janjeva, A. Babuta, et al.
Preprint
Identifying a Preliminary Circuit for Predicting Gendered Pronouns in GPT-2 Small
C. Mathwin, G. Corlouer, E. Kran, F. Barez , N. Nanda
Stanford Existential Safety Journal
Fairness in AI and Its Long-Term Implications on Society
O. Bohdal*, T. Hospedales, P. H. S. Torr, F. Barez *
Preprint, 2023
Exploring the Advantages of Transformers for High-Frequency Trading
F. Barez , P. Bilokon, A. Gervais, N. Lisitsyn
2023
Data Study Group Final Report: Keep Wales Tidy and Keep Scotland Beautiful
F. Barez , H. Ni, S. Fielding, A. Rehman, O. Babajide, M. H. Modi, M. O. Akinsolu
NeurIPS 2022 Workshop
System III: Learning with Domain Knowledge for Safety Constraints
F. Barez , H. Hasanbieg, A. Abbate
ICML 2022
PMIC: Improving Multi-Agent RL with Progressive Mutual Information Collaboration
P. Li, H. Tang, T. Yang, X. Hao, T. Sang, Y. Zheng, J. Hao, M. E. Taylor, Z. Wang, F. Barez
Preprint, 2021
ED2: An Environment Dynamics Decomposition Framework
C. Wang, T. Yang, Y. Zheng, H. Tang, F. Barez , J. Liu, J. Peng, Z. Sun
Alan Turing Institute, 2021
Discovering Topics and Trends in the UK Government Web Archive
D. Beavan, F. Barez , M. Bel, J. Fitzgerald, E. Goudarouli, K. Kollnig, et al
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