Ian R. McKenzie — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

STACK: Adversarial Attacks on LLM Safeguard Pipelines

Ian R. McKenzie, Oskar John Hollinsworth, Tom Tseng, Xander Davies, Stephen Casper, Aaron David Tucker +2

AAAI 2026technical

Frontier AI developers are relying on layers of safeguards to protect against catastrophic misuse of AI systems. Anthropic guards their latest Claude 4 Opus model using one such defense pipeline, and other frontier developers including Google DeepMind and OpenAI pledge to soon deploy similar defense

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2025

Scaling Trends in Language Model Robustness

Nikolaus H. R. Howe, Ian R. McKenzie, Oskar John Hollinsworth, Michał Zając, Tom Tseng, Aaron David Tucker +2

ICML 2025spotlight

Increasing model size has unlocked a dazzling array of capabilities in language models. At the same time, even frontier models remain vulnerable to jailbreaks and prompt injections, despite concerted efforts to make them robust. As both attackers and defenders gain access to more compute, and as mod…

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