Christopher Summerfield

Principal Researcher, UK AI Security Institute

Full Professor, University of Oxford

Joined

October 2022

Names

Christopher Summerfield (Preferred)

Emails

****@psy.ox.ac.uk (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

UK AI Security Institute (aisi.gov.uk)

2024 – 2030

Full Professor

University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)

2015 – 2030

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

AI and neuroscience

Present

human-AI interaction

Present

AI safety and security

Present

Publications

Hybrid Neural-Cognitive Models Reveal How Memory Shapes Human Reward Learning
Maria K Eckstein, Nathaniel D. Daw, Christopher Summerfield, Kevin J Miller
- Nature Human Behavior
- Readers: Everyone
Reward Models Inherit Value Biases from Pretraining
Brian Christian, Jessica A F Thompson, Elle, Vincent Adam, Hannah Rose Kirk, Christopher Summerfield, Tsvetomira Dumbalska
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Bias-mediated early linearization drives simplicity bias in ReLU networks
Jirko Rubruck, Kai Jappe Sandbrink, Christopher Summerfield, Andrew M Saxe, Devon Jarvis
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Bias-driven Alignment of Linear and ReLU Networks
Jirko Rubruck, Kai Jappe Sandbrink, Christopher Summerfield, Andrew M Saxe, Devon Jarvis
- UniReps2025
- Readers: Everyone
Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks
Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Harry Mayne, Jan Batzner, Negar Foroutan, Chris Schmitz, Karolina Korgul, Hunar Batra, Oishi Deb, Emma Beharry, Cornelius Emde, Thomas Foster, Anna Gausen, María Grandury, Simeng Han, Valentin Hofmann, Lujain Ibrahim, Hazel Kim et al. (22 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding human meta-control and its pathologies using deep neural networks
Kai Jappe Sandbrink, Laurence T Hunt, Christopher Summerfield
- PsyRXiv
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model
Jessica A F Thompson, Hannah Sheahan, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Julian D. Sandbrink, Manuella Piazza, Christopher Summerfield
- Neuron
- Readers: Everyone
Early learning of the optimal constant solution in neural networks and humans
Jirko Rubruck, Jan Philipp Bauer, Andrew M Saxe, Christopher Summerfield
- CCN 2025 Proceedings asProceedingsPoster
- Readers: Everyone
The Effect of Representational Compression on Flexibility Across Learning in Humans and Artificial Neural Networks
Mia Whitefield, Christopher Summerfield
- ICLR 2025 Re-Align Workshop ContributedTalk
- Readers: Everyone
Early learning of the optimal constant solution in neural networks and humans
Jirko Rubruck, Jan Philipp Bauer, Andrew M Saxe, Christopher Summerfield
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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