HackTalk: Joan Velja
HackTalk: Joan Velja
Joan Velja is a PhD student at the University of Oxford, supervised by Alessandro Abate and funded by the Alignment Project. Joan works on Scalable Oversight, that is, designing methods to reliably supervise systems smarter than the supervisor. In the past, Joan has worked on multi-agent collusion, co-authoring "Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs" (AACL 2025, oral).
Talk: “How concerned should we be by steganography?”
Format: 15-30 min talk + 10-15 min Q&A. Online (Zoom); the Zoom link is shown once you RSVP.
Part of the AI Collusion Research Sprint, October 23-25, online and at hubs in New York City and Hong Kong. Co-organized by Apart Research, Poseidon Research and AE Studio, sponsored by Modal, The AI Alignment Foundation and Nebius.