John Hughes

John Hughes is an AI control researcher at Anthropic and previously worked as a machine learning engineer at Speechmatics (Cambridge, UK). He was mentored by Ethan Perez since Summer 2023 when he took part in MATS4. During his time at MATS, he worked on an AI safety via debate paper, which was awarded best paper at ICML 2024. After MATS, he worked with Anthropic as a contractor on jailbreak robustness in a narrow domain, Best-of-N Jailbreaking and why models alignment fake.