--- title: "Alex Tamkin — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Alex Tamkin: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alex Tamkin # Alex Tamkin Alex Tamkin has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Benoit Steiner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-steiner/), [Cem Anil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cem-anil/), [Deep Ganguli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deep-ganguli/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081558429) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0007-3746) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130799293) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081558429) · [45 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081558429) · [2,838 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081558429&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,560 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/cited-by/) · [8 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5630](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/57/#star-5630) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Alex+Tamkin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alex+Tamkin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alex+Tamkin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alex+Tamkin) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2018–2033 · 19 papersEducation 2018–2023 · PhD, Computer ScienceEmployment 2018–2033 · PhD Student, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Anthropic** San Francisco · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/anthropic/) · [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/year/2023/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Understanding the Capabilities, Limitations, and Societal Impact of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tamkin-2021-understanding-capabilities-limitations-societal-impact/)** *(2021 · 185 citations)* This document is not an experimental study. It is a structured report of a closed meeting on 14 October 2020, where researchers from OpenAI, Stanford HAI and other universities discussed open questions raised by GPT-3. Attendees came from computer science, linguistics, philosophy, political science, cyber policy and… 2. **[Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosse-2023-studying-large-language-model-generalization/)** *(2023 · 105 citations)* Knowing which training examples drive a given behavior in a large language model could help researchers anticipate and reduce its risks. ## All works 10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Understanding the Capabilities, Limitations, and Societal Impact of Large Language Models arXiv:2102.02503**Alex Tamkin, Miles Brundage, Jack Clark, et al.*2021 · 185 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tamkin-2021-understanding-capabilities-limitations-societal-impact/) 2. **[Many-shot Jailbreaking ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-4121) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Cem Anil et al.*2024 · 109 citations* 3. [**Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions arXiv:2308.03296**Roger Grosse, Juhan Bae, Cem Anil, et al.*2023 · 105 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosse-2023-studying-large-language-model-generalization/) 4. **[Evaluating and Mitigating Discrimination in Language Model Decisions ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03689) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Alex Tamkin et al.*2023 · 49 citations* 5. **[Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10162) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Carson Denison et al.*2024 · 46 citations* 6. **[Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13678) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Alex Tamkin et al.*2024 · 36 citations* 7. **[Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Kunal Handa et al.*2025 · 30 citations* 8. **[Language Through a Prism: A Spectral Approach for Multiscale Language Representations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04823) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Alex Tamkin, Dan Jurafsky, Noah D. Goodman*2020 · 22 citations* 9. **[Recursive Routing Networks: Learning to Compose Modules for Language Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1365/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Ignacio Cases et al.*2019 · 19 citations* 10. **[Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05534) arXiv:2403.05534 · no summary yet**Kunal Handa et al.*2024 · 8 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Benoit Steiner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-steiner/) - [Cem Anil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cem-anil/) - [Deep Ganguli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deep-ganguli/) - [Dustin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dustin-li/) - [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/) - [Ethan Perez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-perez/) - [Evan Hubinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-hubinger/) - [Jack Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-clark/) - [Kamile Lukošiute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamile-luko-vsiute/) - [Miles Brundage](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miles-brundage/) - [Nelson Elhage](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nelson-elhage/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,560 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [365 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-tamkin/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026