Oliver Daniels

Hello! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at Umass Amherst advised by Ben Marlin. My research is in technical AI safety.

I'm currently working on diverse generalization (with applications to scalable oversight), and applying automatic circuit discovery to anomaly detection.

You can reach me at odanielskoch at umass dot edu.

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Works in Progress

• Algorithm for Concept Extrapolation: Diverse Generalization via Selective Disagreement

Publications

• The Expertise Problem: Learning from Specialized Feedback

Blog Posts

• Concrete Methods for Heuristic Estimation on Neural Networks
• Write Good Enough Code Quickly