Samuel Simko

[Call for applicants] My supervisor @ZhijingJin (UofT, CIFAR AI Chair) and I will be mentoring a project for MARS V, a part-time research programme for AI safety research. MARS provides a one-week in-person kick-off in the UK, compute, and research management support! 🚀 The projects are: 🛡️ Adversarial defenses for LLMs using causal methods 🌐 Evaluating risks from AI-assisted authoritarianism 👉 Apply by May 3rd. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis: caish.org/mars @CambridgeAISafetyHub

❓Can we actually trust the quality of the existing multilingual benchmarks translated from English? Turns out many of them have some simple bugs, which hurts the evaluations - we try to fix that! Introducing Recovered in Translation 🌍 ritranslation.insait.ai 🧵below

AI is threatening our democratic society—by concentrating power, narrowing how we think, and flooding institutions faster than they can keep up. These risks emerge at the system level, and technical work alone won't fix them. 👉Check out our whitepaper with 25+ researchers: zhijing-jin.com/d/2026-ai-risk… 💡We introduce 7 threat models and ways forward. ✍️Led by @davidguzman1120 with @DaveRBanerjee, @blin_kevin, @PepijnCobben, @gcorsi_, @x_angelohuang, @ChanglingXavier, Suvajit Majumder, @psyonp, @SimkoSamuel, @strauss_irene, and @TerryJCZhang Advised by senior co-authors: @ashton1anderson, @Yoshua_Bengio, @MatthiasBethge, @RogerGrosse, Karoline Helbig, @david_lie, Richard Mallah, @radamihalcea, Susan Nesbitt, Susan Perry, @presnick, Stuart Russell, @mrinmayasachan, @bschoelkopf @audreyt and @ZhijingJin Thank you to all the institutional support from @JinesisLab @EuroSafeAI @MPI_IS @CIFAR_News @iapsAI @CARMA_411 @Cambridge_Uni @UofTCompSci @VectorInst @TorontoSRI @Mila_Quebec @LawZero_ @uni_tue @michigan_AI @UMichCSE @AUParis @UNESCO @UCBerkeley @ETH_en @ETH_AI_Center @ELLISInst_Tue @ELLISforEurope @EthicsInAI #CivicAI #AISafety #AIGovernance #Democracy #ResponsibleAI

Excited to have 3 accepted papers & 9 members of our @JinesisLab at #IASEAI2026, held at UNESCO, Paris🇫🇷! We reveal hidden authoritarian biases in #LLMs, and that fine-tuning can quietly erode model safety, exploring the risks we don't always see in AI 🔍🛡️ 🧵👇

Excited to have 3 accepted papers & 9 members of our @JinesisLab at #IASEAI2026, held at UNESCO, Paris🇫🇷! We reveal hidden authoritarian biases in #LLMs, and that fine-tuning can quietly erode model safety, exploring the risks we don't always see in AI 🔍🛡️ 🧵👇