Hello! I'm Neil Shevlin

I am an AI researcher and consultant.

Most of my current work is in the evaluation of AI agents; particularly on tasks without a clean reward signal.

Evaluation of AI under hard-to-verify problem domains is also the theme of the The Fitzwilliam AI Circle, which I co-run with my good friend Sam Enright in partnership with ARIA, alongside The Fitzwilliam Maths Circle.

I'm also currently doing research in a few different areas

• Synthetic data generation for LLMs
• Causal Reasoning in AI
• Creativity and non-verifiable tasks in AI systems
• Generative models for audio and music
• Epistemological methods for LLMs in research and reasoning tasks

In some of my previous work I have contributed to building tools for mathematical education, tools for geo-science and mineral exploration research, and building hardware for underwater data collection.

If you would like to contact me, you can reach me at neil@altumsubs.com