Francis Rhys Ward

24 papers A* 3A 4Journal 13Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
How does information access affect LLM monitors' ability to detect sabotage?
CoRR
Rauno Arike, Raja Mehta Moreno, Rohan Subramani, Shubhorup Biswas, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 A* conf
AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations.
ICLR
Teun van der Weij, Felix Hofstätter, Oliver Jaffe, Samuel F. Brown, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
CTRL-ALT-DECEIT: Sabotage Evaluations for Automated AI R&D.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward, Teun van der Weij, Hanna Gábor, Sam Martin, Raja Mehta Moreno, Harel Lidar, Louis Makower, Thomas Jodrell, Lauren Robson
2025 A conf
Higher-Order Belief in Incomplete Information MAIDs.
AAMAS
Jack Foxabbott, Rohan Subramani, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
Higher-Order Belief in Incomplete Information MAIDs.
CoRR
Jack Foxabbott, Rohan Subramani, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
Password-Activated Shutdown Protocols for Misaligned Frontier Agents.
CoRR
Kai Williams, Rohan Subramani, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
Reasoning Under Pressure: How do Training Incentives Influence Chain-of-Thought Monitorability?
CoRR
Matt MacDermott, Qiyao Wei, Rada Djoneva, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 A* conf
The Elicitation Game: Evaluating Capability Elicitation Techniques.
ICML
Felix Hofstätter, Teun van der Weij, Jayden Teoh, Rada Djoneva, Henning Bartsch, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
The Elicitation Game: Evaluating Capability Elicitation Techniques.
CoRR
Felix Hofstätter, Teun van der Weij, Jayden Teoh, Henning Bartsch, Francis Rhys Ward
2025 A* conf
Towards a Theory of AI Personhood.
AAAI
Francis Rhys Ward
2025 J jnl
Towards a Theory of AI Personhood.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward
2024 J jnl
AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations.
CoRR
Teun van der Weij, Felix Hofstätter, Ollie Jaffe, Samuel F. Brown, Francis Rhys Ward
2024 — conf
Evaluating Language Model Character Traits.
EMNLP (Findings)
Francis Rhys Ward, Zejia Yang, Alex Jackson, Randy Brown, Chandler Smith, Grace Colverd, Louis Thomson, Raymond Douglas, Patrik Bartak, Andrew Rowan
2024 J jnl
Evaluating Language Model Character Traits.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward, Zejia Yang, Alex Jackson, Randy Brown, Chandler Smith, Grace Colverd, Louis Thomson, Raymond Douglas, Patrik Bartak, Andrew Rowan
2024 A conf
The Reasons that Agents Act: Intention and Instrumental Goals.
AAMAS
Francis Rhys Ward, Matt MacDermott, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni, Tom Everitt
2024 J jnl
The Reasons that Agents Act: Intention and Instrumental Goals.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward, Matt MacDermott, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni, Tom Everitt
2023 A conf
Defining Deception in Structural Causal Games.
AAMAS
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesca Toni, Francesco Belardinelli
2023 J jnl
Experiments with Detecting and Mitigating AI Deception.
CoRR
Ismail Sahbane, Francis Rhys Ward, C. Henrik Åslund
2023 J jnl
Honesty Is the Best Policy: Defining and Mitigating AI Deception.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni, Tom Everitt
2022 — conf
A Causal Perspective on AI Deception in Games.
ICLP Workshops
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesca Toni, Francesco Belardinelli
2022 — conf
A causal perspective on AI deception in games.
AISafety@IJCAI
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni
2022 J jnl
Argumentative Reward Learning: Reasoning About Human Preferences.
CoRR
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni
2022 A conf
On Agent Incentives to Manipulate Human Feedback in Multi-Agent Reward Learning Scenarios.
AAMAS
Francis Rhys Ward, Francesca Toni, Francesco Belardinelli
2020 — conf
An Assurance Case Pattern for the Interpretability of Machine Learning in Safety-Critical Systems.
SAFECOMP Workshops
Francis Rhys Ward, Ibrahim Habli