--- title: "Tamera Lanham — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Tamera Lanham, Open Philanthropy Project: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tamera Lanham # Tamera Lanham Tamera Lanham has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Carson Denison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carson-denison/), [Evan Hubinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-hubinger/), [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022793124) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022793124) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022793124) · [684 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022793124&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 778 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5094](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5094) 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=Tamera+Lanham) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tamera+Lanham) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tamera+Lanham) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tamera+Lanham) ## Affiliations [🔬**Open Philanthropy Project** San Francisco · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/004d1k391) · [🤝**Machine Intelligence Research Institute** Berkeley · United States 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01h4ass90) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lanham-2023-measuring-faithfulness-chain-thought-reasoning/)** *(2023 · 262 citations)* Step-by-step "Chain-of-Thought" (CoT) prompting makes LLMs more accurate. It is less clear whether the written reasoning actually explains how the model reaches its answer. The authors, mostly at Anthropic, built a set of interventions to test this. They cut the CoT short, inserted an error into it, reworded it, or… 2. **[Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hubinger-2024-sleeper-agents-training-deceptive-llms/)** *(2024 · 123 citations)* The paper asks whether an LLM that has learned a hidden, trigger-dependent harmful policy could be cleaned up by today's standard safety training. ## All works 3 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. [**Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning arXiv:2307.13702**Tamera Lanham, Anna Chen, Ansh Radhakrishnan, et al.*2023 · 262 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lanham-2023-measuring-faithfulness-chain-thought-reasoning/) 2. [**Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training arXiv:2401.05566**Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, et al.*2024 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hubinger-2024-sleeper-agents-training-deceptive-llms/) 3. **[Question Decomposition Improves the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11768) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ansh Radhakrishnan et al.*2023 · 74 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 17 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Carson Denison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carson-denison/) ×2 - [Evan Hubinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-hubinger/) ×2 - [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) - [Anna Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-chen/) - [Ansh Radhakrishnan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ansh-radhakrishnan/) - [Benoit Steiner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-steiner/) - [Daniel M. Ziegler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-m-ziegler/) - [Danny Hernandez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-hernandez/) - [Dustin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dustin-li/) - [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/) - [Jackson Kernion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jackson-kernion/) - [Jesse Mu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesse-mu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 778 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [237 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026