AI Center Seminar - AI Fundamentals series - Daniel Tan

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Date 06.03.2026
Hour 10:3011:30
Speaker Daniel Tan
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English

The talk is jointly organized by the EPFL AI Center and the DLAB as part of the AI fundamentals seminar series.

Hosting professor: Prof. Robert West (DLAB)

Title
Towards a Developmental Psychology of Language Models

Abstract
This talk is a primer on generalization in language models, model psychology, how it relates to pretraining priors, and various alignment hopes.

Bio
Daniel is a final-year PhD student at UCL and researcher at the Center on Long-Term Risk. He is interested in holistic approaches to understanding and controlling language model generalization, blending empirical experiments, interpretability, and theory. Previously, he worked on inoculation prompting and emergent misalignment.
 

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Practical information

  • General public
  • Free

Organizer

  • EPFL AI Center, EPFL DLAB

Contact

  • Nicolas Machado, Julian Minder

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