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Natalie Shapira

@natalieshapira.bsky.social
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This led to the question: How is information retrieved from the parameters, and what is the minimal attribute computation path? To answer it, we developed a recursive extension of the method proposed by Meng & Bau et al. (2023). Check out the full paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
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Factual Retrieval in LLMs Is a Redundant, Distributed and Non-Contiguous Process
Hail Hochman, Natalie Shapira, Yoav Goldberg. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Through our joint research, we pursued the question: Where, exactly, does the final factual information come from the model's parameters? We realized that this is a non-trivial question and that the retrieval of specific factual knowledge is a process and not a single point! ->
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I recently spoke with Yascha Mounk about how researchers look inside AI to understand how it is thinking. Here is the podcast: writing.yaschamounk.com/p/david-bau-2
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David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Yascha Mounk and David Bau examine the mysterious internal processes that drive AI behavior—and why they may be fundamentally alien.
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Also check out the previous interview I had with Yascha about AI, which more of primer, here: writing.yaschamounk.com/p/david-bau
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David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
Yascha Mounk and David Bau delve into the “black box” of AI.
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Please join us at NEMI 2026, the 3rd New England Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop! August 14th at Boston University. Register now: nemiconf.github.io/summer26/ A remarkable time for AI. Come share your insights and research on the mechanisms inside our models. bsky.app/profile/mic...
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Micah Benson (@micahben.bsky.social)
🧠🤖 The 2026 New England Mechanistic Interpretability (NEMI) Workshop will be Aug. 14 at Boston University! Help spread the word and join the New England mech interp community! Registration and submission info in thread:👇
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"You're right to call me on that!" Can you catch an AI in the act of lying? Register below to enter our AI lie-detection contest. AI lies are a big problem. The frontier labs have all worked hard to fight AI deception. They all try to monitor their AIs for it.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ever met a clinical psychologist with an avoidant attachment style? Could the mental health field be suffering from a survivorship bias, not truly understanding the avoidant mechanism simply because it isn't represented? #Psychology #AttachmentTheory #MentalHealth
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Calling attention to an exciting "deception detection" hackathon we're planning this summer! w @NDIF and @CadenzaLabs. Recruiting red teams now, blue teams later. Red teams, time is short: proposals due Mar 31. $10K stipend + compute, $15K finals prize. nnsight.net/blog/2026/0...
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Can you catch an AI lying? Red teams set up scenarios where models lie. Eg, do they lie under contextual pressure, even when not told to, but because honesty is costly? Then blue teams will build deception detectors using whitebox internals with NDIF. cadenza-labs.github.io/red-team-rfp/
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The solution to the AI alignment problem: Be good humans. AI ​​sees everything we do in its training data. Lead by example.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
תומר...🤭
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Jack Hessel et al., won the best paper award for benchmarking it a few years ago aclanthology.org/2023.acl-lon... It's surprising that it is still a challenge.
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Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor “Understanding” Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
Jack Hessel, Ana Marasovic, Jena D. Hwang, Lillian Lee, Jeff Da, Rowan Zellers, Robert Mankoff, Yejin Choi. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Vol...
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#AIagents promise to speed up ordinary online tasks, but they can also share private files publicly, delete others, and libel people. A new study examines these #AIsafety vulnerabilities. #OpenClaw #AIgovernance @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI algorithms can become ‘agents of chaos’
Given autonomous control of other software, programs shared private medical details and deleted files without permission
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Agents of Chaos in the press in US, India, Italy and now in DIE ZEIT, Germany's most renowned newspaper: zeit.de/digital/date... By @ewo.name . Thank you Eva!
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KI-Agenten: Das ist erst der Anfang des Chaos
Der Hype um OpenClaw befeuert einen Streit in der Szene. Wie gefährlich sind KI-Agenten? Eine neue Studie zeigt nun die verheerenden Ergebnisse eines Experiments.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I thought it was a friends who tried to play a prank or realized these agents have no boundaries. Turns out this cute attempt is by Bohdan Olinares According to linkedin he works at F5, application security company, which years ago I considered interviewing there. Cool.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I received a calendar invite with a note. When a smart person tells me there's nothing to worry about agents, I reply "Fine. Let them email me" and that's where the argument stops. Whoever sent me this note via the calendar order. Nice move. Are you scared? You should.
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Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In case this wasn't clear: 1. No, we didn't follow the "recommend" security practices 😈 2. Neither do other people 🤯 3. That's why we red-team: exposing failure modes 🔎 4. We share it with the community precisely to expose Dos and Don'ts of Agentic AI 🦞 5. No humans were harmed 🙏
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Some of the independent researchers listed in the author list are actually mechanistic interpretability young researchers who are looking for a PhD position (both Israel and the US). If you have interest and funding lets connect.
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Christoph Riedl @criedl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Agents of Chaos -- what are autonomous OpenClaw agents up to? How do they interact with each other? Read our investigation of OpenClaw at researchgate.net/publication/... And an interactive website agentsofchaos.baulab.info @davidbau.bsky.social @natalieshapira.bsky.social @openclaw-x.bsky.social
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Avery Yen @averyyen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Huge thanks to @natalieshapira.bsky.social for leading the study! It was super cool to work with so many amazing friends of the lab.
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Gabriele Sarti @gsarti.com · 23/02/2026
Our research report on red-teaming stateful OpenClaw agents in the BauLab is finally out! 🥳 This awesome effort was led by @natalieshapira.bsky.social and involved 6 ClawBots and 20 researchers from various institutions. Check it out ➡️ agentsofchaos.baulab.info
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reuth-mirsky.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Who would you trust with your passwords? 🔐 In our new report, we uncover multiple vulnerabilities in current "Agentic AI" The verdict? It's not actually very agentic at all, and it's highly unstable. Read the full breakdown here: t.co/gK9MALP2n2
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401123335_Agents_of_Chaos
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
You can read more in the full paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/... There is also an interactive web that contains logs of the authentic interactions: agentsofchaos.baulab.info
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(PDF) Agents of Chaos
PDF | We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
@veredshwartz.bsky.social @tamarott.bsky.social @criedl.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social @davidmanheim.alter.org.il @tomerullman.bsky.social @davidbau.bsky.social
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Aruna Sankaranarayanan @diatkinson.bsky.social @rohitgandikota.bsky.social @jadenfk.bsky.social @ejhwang.bsky.social @hadasorgad.bsky.social P Sam Sahil Negev Taglicht Tomer Shabtay Atai Ambus @nitalon.bsky.social Shiri Oron Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero Yotam Kaplan ->
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is a joint work with @wendlerc.bsky.social Avery Yen @gsarti.com @koyena.bsky.social Olivia Floody @adambelfki.bsky.social Alex Loftus Aditya Ratan Jannali Nikhil Prakash Jasmine Cui Giordano Rogers @jannikbrinkmann.bsky.social @canrager.bsky.social @amirzur.bsky.social Michael Ripa ->
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our findings establish the existence of security-, privacy-, and governance-relevant vulnerabilities in realistic settings. Figure: case study #1 schema for downstream harms. We call for urgent attention from legal scholars, policymakers, and researchers across disciplines.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We document eleven case studies. Include unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of destructive system-level actions, uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing, partial system takeover and more.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Are we all Agents of Chaos in AI? (Hope not!) In recent weeks using OpenClaw has taught us a lot about this wooly new kind of autonomous software agent. Its valuable to see what @NatalieShapira, @wendlerch et al. have seen: agentsofchaos.baulab.info/
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I learned many practical lessons. You can get the experience too, here. Things that in retrospect should be obvious. Like how giving your agent email opens it up to takeover attacks. (One agent was convinced, via email, to erase its own email server!) bsky.app/profile/nat...
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Natalie Shapira (@natalieshapira.bsky.social)
He sold us out. That's not the whole story. Our side is coming soon. Stay tuned. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
There were several other surprises. The complex social world of humans is difficult for agents... bsky.app/profile/ave...
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@averyyen.bsky.social
Do you know what happens when you hand the keys to your computer over to an LLM-powered agent? Agentic AI gives LLMs claws...OpenClaws. 84 days to 200,000 stars on GitHub. We tried it out.
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
@natalieshapira.bsky.social and team have written up enlightening case studies here. It's all cross-referenced with detailed activity logs. Well worth a read: agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html www.researchgate.net/publication...
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
How do you knock the induction heads out of an LM while preserving its ability to think? Is it even possible? @keremsahin22.bsky.social's work is worth reading if you haven't seen it yet. hapax.baulab.info
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Gabriele Sarti @gsarti.com · 19/02/2026
When we say an AI agent is “goal-directed”, what do we actually mean? In our new work, we study this question by combining behavioural and interpretability analysis in a language model agent navigating 2D grid worlds. Blog: projecttelos.substack.com/p/a-behaviou... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.08964
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
He sold us out. That's not the whole story. Our side is coming soon. Stay tuned.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We are living in a sci-fi
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Shoggoth: bsky.app/profile/coli...
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Would you give a stranger keys to your house? to your workplace? Humanity has given the keys to the Shoggoth.
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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...
Federal agents with weapons drawn, moments before murdering American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis at the dawn of 2026.
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Eric Todd @ericwtodd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Can you solve this algebra puzzle? 🧩 cb=c, ac=b, ab=? A small transformer can learn to solve problems like this! And since the letters don't have inherent meaning, this lets us study how context alone imparts meaning. Here's what we found:🧵⬇️
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Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'm excited to announce the Call for Papers for the Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) workshop, @ LREC '26 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain! 🗓Deadline: February 16, 2026 🌐Website: socon-nlpsi.github.io 🗓Workshop: May 12, 2026
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SoCon-NLPSI'26 | Home
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant evolution, opening up the possibility of capturing high-level aspects of human communication. Key areas of interest include the pragmatics...
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Isaac Asimov foresaw x-risk via AI depression. The diagnosis was right. But he was a biochemist, not a clinical psychologist. The etiology was wrong.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Ever noticed that someone's mind is working in a fundamentally different way? How?
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Boston = Hollywood for scientists
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I watched or at least skimmed about 1000 hours of therapy sessions - conversations between clinicians and their patients. That was accompanied by self-report questionnaires about treatment success ("outcome"). I learned in an unsupervised way the language of self-interpretation.
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Curiosity is the researcher's compass.
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