Ariana Azarbal
Hello! These days, I'm an alignment researcher at Anthropic working on anticipating and mitigating catastrophic risks from AI. I was previously an Anthropic Fellow, where I worked on AI welfare, and a MATS fellow, where I worked on mitigating reward hacking and misgeneralization. I also studied Math-CS at Brown and helped lead BAIST.
Research
- Think Fast: Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons June 2026
- Recontextualization December 2025
- Inoculation Prompting October 2025
- Training a Reward Hacker Despite Perfect Labels August 2025
- Selective Generalization: Improving Capabilities while Maintaining Alignment July 2025
Writings
- Confusion around the term reward hacking March 2026