Dewi S.W. Gould

Astra Fellow, Redwood Research

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I’m an Astra Fellow at Redwood Research, working on AI safety. My research is motivated by understanding and reducing risks from increasingly capable AI systems.

Previously I…

  • Was a post-doc at the Alan Turing Institute on Project Bluebird, working on synthetic scenario generation for autonomous air-traffic control. I gave a Pint of Science talk about it.
  • Did a PhD in mathematical physics at the University of Oxford. My thesis was on Generalized Symmetries in String Theory Realizations of Quantum Field Theories. I wrote a blog post about my research.

news

May 01, 2026 Our paper “A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior” was accepted to ICML 2026 :kr:.
Apr 27, 2026 Our work “A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior” was presented as a poster at the ICLR 2026 Trustworthy-AI Workshop :brazil:.
Jan 01, 2026 Started as an Astra Fellow at Redwood Research in Berkeley.

recent research

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    A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior
    H. Mayne, J. S. Kang, Dewi S. W. Gould, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2026
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    SKATE, a Scalable Tournament Eval: Weaker LLMs differentiate between stronger ones using verifiable challenges
    Dewi S. W. Gould, B. Mlodozeniec, and S. F. Brown
    arXiv preprint, 2025
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    PAC Apprenticeship Learning with Bayesian Active Inverse Reinforcement Learning
    O. Bajgar, Dewi S. W. Gould, J. Liu, and 3 more authors
    In Reinforcement Learning Conference, 2025
    Earlier version at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty