Researcher · Academic
Owain Evans
Truthful AIDirector and Research Lead
Evans researches AI safety and the truthfulness of language models, co-creating the TruthfulQA benchmark and studies of emergent misalignment and deceptive behavior. He directs Truthful AI.
Career & education
Current role
Truthful AIJan 2023-present
Director and Research LeadPreviously
University of OxfordAI Research Scientist2017-2021
Postdoc2015-2017
Education
MITWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations20,317As of Oct 25, '26
citations+3,749Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
With Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Alex Chan, Sören Mindermann, Ilan Moscovitz, Alexa Pan, Yarin Gal and Jan BraunerDetected deliberately false model answers by asking unrelated follow-up questions.
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