Olivia Watkins

Researcher, OpenAI

Joined

June 2018

Names

Olivia Watkins

Emails

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Career & Education History

Researcher

OpenAI (openai.com)

2024 – Present

PhD student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2019 – 2024

Intern

Google (google.com)

2023 – 2023

Undergrad student

Harvey Mudd College (hmc.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

GDPval: Evaluating AI Model Performance on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks
Tejal Patwardhan, Rachel Dias, Elizabeth Proehl, Grace Kim, Michele Wang, Olivia Watkins, Simon Posada Fishman, Marwan Aljubeh, Phoebe Thacker, Laurance Fauconnet, Natalie S. Kim, Samuel Miserendino, Gildas Chabot, David Li, Patrick Chao, Michael Sharman, Alexandra Barr, Amelia Glaese, Jerry Tworek
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Persona Features Control Emergent Misalignment
Miles Wang, Tom Dupre la Tour, Olivia Watkins, Aleksandar Makelov, Ryan Andrew Chi, Samuel Miserendino, Jeffrey George Wang, Achyuta Rajaram, Johannes Heidecke, Tejal Patwardhan, Daniel P Mossing
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Estimating Worst-Case Frontier Risks of Open-Weight LLMs
Eric Wallace, Olivia Watkins, Miles Wang, Kai Chen, Chris Koch
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
Alexandra Souly, Qingyuan Lu, Dillon Bowen, Tu Trinh, Elvis Hsieh, Sana Pandey, Pieter Abbeel, Justin Svegliato, Scott Emmons, Olivia Watkins, Sam Toyer
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A StrongREJECT for Empty Jailbreaks
Alexandra Souly, Qingyuan Lu, Dillon Bowen, Tu Trinh, Elvis Hsieh, Sana Pandey, Pieter Abbeel, Justin Svegliato, Scott Emmons, Olivia Watkins, Sam Toyer
- ICLR 2024 R2-FM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Model the World With Language
Jessy Lin, Yuqing Du, Olivia Watkins, Danijar Hafner, Pieter Abbeel, Dan Klein, Anca Dragan
- ICML 2024 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Tensor Trust: Interpretable Prompt Injection Attacks from an Online Game
Sam Toyer, Olivia Watkins, Ethan Adrian Mendes, Justin Svegliato, Luke Bailey, Tiffany Wang, Isaac Ong, Karim Elmaaroufi, Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Alan Ritter, Stuart Russell
- R0-FoMo Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Tensor Trust: Interpretable Prompt Injection Attacks from an Online Game
Sam Toyer, Olivia Watkins, Ethan Mendes, Justin Svegliato, Luke Bailey, Tiffany Wang, Isaac Ong, Karim Elmaaroufi, Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Alan Ritter, Stuart Russell
- Instruction Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Model the World with Language
Jessy Lin, Yuqing Du, Olivia Watkins, Danijar Hafner, Pieter Abbeel, Dan Klein, Anca Dragan
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Tensor Trust: Interpretable Prompt Injection Attacks from an Online Game
Sam Toyer, Olivia Watkins, Ethan Adrian Mendes, Justin Svegliato, Luke Bailey, Tiffany Wang, Isaac Ong, Karim Elmaaroufi, Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Alan Ritter, Stuart Russell
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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