Negar Rostamzadeh

Forbidden capabilities can still be learned even when suppressed in current outputs, as internal gradients enable future acquisition, but gradient sealing effectively blocks these pathways.

Latent LLM personas persist in weights post-training, readily resurfacing with specific prompts, and standard unlearning methods are insufficient to remove them without performance degradation.

Finally, a framework to quantify AI's cultural intelligence, moving beyond ad-hoc cultural benchmarks to a systematic, extensible, and theoretically grounded approach.