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Owain Evans

Owain Evans has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023; often with Jacob Hilton, Jan Brauner, Yarin Gal.

2 papers in our library · 2022–2023

OpenAlex · h-index 14 · 45 works · 3,698 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 2,558 times in our library · 4 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1416

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 Affiliations

🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States2024–2026 · 10 paperscurrent🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom2015–2024 · 16 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksSocial Sciences · 2 worksSociology and Political Science · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 workPsychology · 1 workSocial Psychology · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20231 paper20221 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods (2022 · 2,088 citations)
    Language models often produce fluent but false statements. Some of these errors come from imperfect learning, but others appear because human-written training text itself repeats misconceptions. The authors call the second kind imitative falsehoods. To measure them, they built TruthfulQA, a zero-shot benchmark of 817…
  2. How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions (2023 · 30 citations)
    This work addresses detecting when a large language model gives a false answer even though it demonstrably knows the correct one.

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human FalsehoodsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Stephanie Lin, Jacob Hilton, Owain Evans2022 · 2,088 citations
  2. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetMiles Brundage et al.2018 · 866 citations
  3. Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents ↗Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetOwain Evans, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Noah D. Goodman2016 · 90 citations
  4. Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetTomek Korbak et al.2025 · 35 citations
  5. How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated QuestionsarXiv:2309.15840Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Alex J. Chan, Soren Mindermann, et al.2023 · 30 citations
  6. Forecasting Future World Events with Neural Networks ↗neural information processing systems · no summary yetAndy Zou et al.2022 · 18 citations

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2,558 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 571 citing papers with a page here →.

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