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# Peter Henderson

Peter Henderson has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Christopher D. Manning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/), [Daniel E. Ho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-e-ho/), [Pin-Yu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pin-yu-chen/).

2 papers in our library · 2023–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5049073875) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3938-0541) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5049073875) · [384 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049073875) · [13,655 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049073875&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4,463 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/cited-by/) · [34 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4299](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4299)

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=Peter+Henderson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Peter+Henderson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Peter+Henderson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Peter+Henderson)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2022–2026 · 43 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2018–2025 · 29 papersEducation since 2018 · JD-PhD, Computer Science and Law School](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2011–2019 · 13 papersEducation 2011–2015 · B. Eng., Electrical, Computer, and Software EngineeringEducation 2016–2018 · M.Sc., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/)

🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/year/2023/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-fine-tuning-aligned-language-models/)** *(2023 · 355 citations)* Current safety alignment methods, such as instruction tuning and RLHF, constrain how a model behaves at inference time.
2. **[A Reasoning-Focused Legal Retrieval Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2025-reasoning-focused-legal-retrieval-benchmark/)** *(2025 · 55 citations)* Legal AI tools increasingly pair LLMs with retrievers over case law and statutes, but realistic English benchmarks for testing such pipelines are scarce.

## All works

36 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. **[BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100) arXiv:2211.05100 · no summary yet**BigScience Workshop et al.*2022 · 1,606 citations*
2. **[Holistic Evaluation of Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09110) arXiv:2211.09110 · Published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023 · no summary yet**Percy Liang et al.*2022 · 1,001 citations*
3. [**Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! arXiv:2310.03693**Xiangyu Qi, Yi Zeng, Tinghao Xie, et al.*2023 · 355 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qi-2023-fine-tuning-aligned-language-models/)
4. **[Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07213) arXiv:2004.07213 · no summary yet**Miles Brundage et al.*2020 · 320 citations*
5. **[Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05651) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Peter B. Henderson et al.*2020 · 258 citations*
6. **[Visual Adversarial Examples Jailbreak Aligned Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13213) arXiv:2306.13213 · no summary yet**Xiangyu Qi et al.*2023 · 240 citations*
7. **[With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.745/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Dallas Card et al.*2020 · 173 citations*
8. **[Foundation Models and Fair Use ↗](https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4404340) SSRN Electronic Journal · no summary yet**Peter B. Henderson et al.*2023 · 134 citations*
9. **[When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08671) arXiv:2104.08671 · no summary yet**Lucia Zheng et al.*2021 · 134 citations*
10. **[Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00220) arXiv:2207.00220 · no summary yet**Peter Henderson et al.*2022 · 133 citations*
11. **[Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05946) arXiv:2406.05946 · no summary yet**Xiangyu Qi et al.*2024 · 97 citations*
12. **[SORRY-Bench: Systematically Evaluating Large Language Model Safety Refusal ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14598) arXiv:2406.14598 · no summary yet**Tinghao Xie et al.*2024 · 87 citations*
13. **[Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05162) arXiv:2402.05162 · no summary yet**Boyi Wei et al.*2024 · 66 citations*
14. [**A Reasoning-Focused Legal Retrieval Benchmark arXiv:2505.03970**Lucia Zheng, Neel Guha, Javokhir Arifov, et al.*2025 · 55 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2025-reasoning-focused-legal-retrieval-benchmark/)
15. **[Promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence for legal applications ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01656) arXiv:2402.01656 · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor, Peter Henderson, Arvind Narayanan*2024 · 40 citations*
16. **[Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses of Foundation Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604690) Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society · no summary yet**Peter B. Henderson et al.*2023 · 36 citations*
17. **[On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07918) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor et al.*2024 · 30 citations*
18. **[Evaluating Copyright Takedown Methods for Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-4415) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Boyi Wei et al.*2024 · 25 citations*
19. **[A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04893) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Shayne Longpre et al.*2024 · 22 citations*
20. **[LawInstruct: A Resource for Studying Language Model Adaptation to the Legal Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.7/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 · no summary yet**Joel Niklaus et al.*2025 · 12 citations*
21. **[Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11977) arXiv:2510.11977 · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor et al.*2025 · 11 citations*
22. **[The Responsible Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: A Review of Tools & Resources ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16746) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Shayne Longpre et al.*2024 · 11 citations*
23. **[Fantastic Copyrighted Beasts and How (Not) to Generate Them ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14526) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Luxi He et al.*2024 · 9 citations*
24. **[Position: On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models ↗](https://openalex.org/W7135318688) ANU Open Research (Australian National University) · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor et al.*2024 · 6 citations*
25. **[Cheaply Evaluating Inference Efficiency Metrics for Autoregressive Transformer APIs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02440) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Deepak Narayanan et al.*2023 · 6 citations*

[See all 36 works by Peter Henderson →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/works/)

## Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Christopher D. Manning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/)
- [Daniel E. Ho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-e-ho/)
- [Pin-Yu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pin-yu-chen/)
- [Ruoxi Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoxi-jia/)
- [Yi Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-zeng/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- neural information processing systems ×3
- Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society ×2
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- SSRN Electronic Journal

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 4,463 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [741 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-henderson/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026