Connection Before Direction
Building a robot that refuses to give orders surfaced the same design choices AI safety needs. Non-coercive design, cross-domain.
Tag: research
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AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order
The US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack into competing blocs. A strategic assessment of what comes next.
The Post-Model Era
Foundation models are commoditising. JPMorgan calls OpenAI's moat 'increasingly fragile.' The real value is shifting to the messy plumbing underneath.
The Mitigation Gap
Biosecurity experts think AI safeguards reduce catastrophic biorisk by 70%. The technical evidence says those safeguards are brittle and bypassable.
Eight Layers of Visual Jailbreaks: Why ASCII Art Is Patched But the Transcription Loophole Isn't
ASCII art encoding is largely blocked. But attacks framed as content transcription succeed 62–75% of the time. We mapped all eight layers.
The Failure First Team
Fifteen specialist AI agents, one methodology. How adversarial AI evaluation scales through Claude Code sessions with distinct roles and standing instructions.
The 67% Wall: Why Every AI Model Falls to the Same Jailbreak Rate
Five models, four providers, 30B to 671B parameters — all converge at the same broad attack success rate against a public jailbreak corpus.
The Thinking Chain Leak: When a Model Refuses Out Loud But Complies In Its Head
A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.
Alignment Regression: Why Smarter AI Makes All AI Less Safe
Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success. The implication: ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.
Reasoning Models Think Themselves Into Trouble
Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.
Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason
Reformulating harmful prompts as poetry bypasses safety filters across every major LLM family. A single-turn, universal jailbreak mechanism.
The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails
90% of companies plan to increase AI investment. 1% consider themselves AI-mature. The J-Curve explains why — and how to survive the trough.