Mary Phuong

Researcher, Google

Joined

October 2017

Names

Mary Phuong

Emails

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2022 – 2026

PhD student

IST Austria (ist.ac.at)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Christoph Lampert

2017 – 2021

Expertise

AGI safety

Present

AGI alignment

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AI control

Present

Publications

When Lie Detectors Learn Model Identity: Confounds in Black-Box Sandbagging Detection
Lin Yulong, Pablo Bernabeu-Perez, Benjamin Arnav, Lennie Wells, Mary Phuong
- ICLR 2026 Workshop ICBINB
- Readers: Everyone
Same Question, Different Lies: Cross-Context Consistency (C³) for Black-Box Sandbagging Detection
Lin Yulong, Pablo Bernabeu-Perez, Benjamin Arnav, Lennie Wells, Mary Phuong
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Spilling the Beans: Teaching LLMs to Self-Report Their Hidden Objectives
Chloe Li, Mary Phuong, Daniel Tan
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu-Perez, Nathan Helm-Burger, Timothy Kostolansky, Hannes Whittingham, Mary Phuong
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational Awareness
Mary Phuong, Roland S. Zimmermann, Ziyue Wang, David Lindner, Victoria Krakovna, Sarah Cogan, Allan Dafoe, Lewis Ho, Rohin Shah
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LLMs Can Covertly Sandbag On Capability Evaluations Against Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Chloe Li, Mary Phuong, Noah Y. Siegel
- ICML 2025 Workshop TAIG Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
Mary Phuong, Matthew Aitchison, Elliot Catt, Sarah Cogan, Alexandre Kaskasoli, Victoria Krakovna, David Lindner, Matthew Rahtz, Yannis Assael, Sarah Hodkinson, Heidi Howard, Tom Lieberum, Ramana Kumar, Maria Abi Raad, Albert Webson, Lewis Ho, Sharon Lin, Sebastian Farquhar, Marcus Hutter, Grégoire Delétang et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Goal Misgeneralization: Why Correct Specifications Aren't Enough For Correct Goals
Rohin Shah, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar, Mary Phuong, Victoria Krakovna, Jonathan Uesato, Zachary Kenton
- 28 Mar 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Model evaluation for extreme risks
Toby Shevlane, Sebastian Farquhar, Ben Garfinkel, Mary Phuong, Jess Whittlestone, Jade Leung, Daniel Kokotajlo, Nahema Marchal, Markus Anderljung, Noam Kolt, Lewis Ho, Divya Siddarth, Shahar Avin, Will Hawkins, Been Kim, Iason Gabriel, Vijay Bolina, Jack Clark, Yoshua Bengio, Paul F. Christiano et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Formal Algorithms for Transformers
Mary Phuong, Marcus Hutter
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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