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Sydney AI Safety Space - General Funding
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Ontology Identification Problem via Condensation
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ResearchAlignment Theory
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment
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MediaCommsX-Risk
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration
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IndividualResearchGovernance
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IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law
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TrainingTechnical SafetyX-Risk
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk
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NetworkGovernance
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Loyal Lies: Auditing Secret Loyalties Under Attack
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship
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Closing the Unowned Trust Boundary: KV-Cache Integrity Verification
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers
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Human Access: Animated Web Series Communicating ASI Risk
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Evaluating Containment of AI Agents: A Nine-Rule Sandbox Standard
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Refusals a Text-Only Scorer Cannot See: Structured Refusal Signals
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When Missing Evidence Looks Like Innocence: Evidence Ablation
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AI Kernel Killswitch
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Blindfold: Auditing Vietnamese LLM Safety Using Secure Enclaves
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ActionLens: Pre-Execution Probing for Agent Action Approval
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STEER - Mech interp-based white box attack on LLMs
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Readable but Not Causal: Self-Attributed Welfare Representations
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Alien Cub Productions
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Swarm incidents tracking platform
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Clearing transition debts for an AI governance researcher in Bangladesh
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Research into relative effects of different pacing interventions
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NadIntellect Lab: first live test of a constrained information channel
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The White-Box Affordance Ladder: Auditing Secret Loyalties
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From Warning Shot to Supervisory File
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Confidently Wrong: Calibration Risks in LLMs for African Languages
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Towards Principal-Agnostic Remediation in Secretly Loyal Models
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Three Ways to Ask a Model What It Is Doing, and How Little They Agree
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ResearchAI Welfare
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The Persona Is Still There, but Who Is Speaking?
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Relational Context and Protective Friction
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Ufakazi
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Tool Affordances as Persona-Indexing Features
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ResearchAlignment Theory
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Blind loyalty removal erases who it served, usually not the loyalty
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Metacognitive Steering of Introspective Self-Report in LLMs
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¿Por qué los agentes obedecen? (Why do agents obey?)
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From a Culture of Control to a Culture of Being
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ResearchAI Welfare
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Dormancy and Dynamic Range: Detecting Secret Loyalties
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ResearchDeception
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Taxonomy without complementarity: routing monitor ensembles
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ResearchControl
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Who am I? - Understanding Persona Preferences with LLMs
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AfriVish-Bench
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The Materiality Gate: AI Sovereignty Risk Under Geopolitical Shocks
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ResearchCompute Gov
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S-Space Steering for Eval-Awareness Control in Reasoning Models
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SamplerScope: Exact decoder attribution for language agents
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Identifying the Principal Before Proving the Loyalty
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Detecting Secret Loyalties in Language Models with White-Box Probes
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A Steerable 'Companion Dependency' Direction in Open-Weight LLMs
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Tracing a Secret Pro-Russia Loyalty Through the Training Pipeline
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Model, Instance, or Persona? Affective Signals After an AI Is Retired
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The Sydney AI Safety Space is a co-working hub in Sydney, Australia, offering free office space for people working in the field of AI safety.

Led byHunter Jay
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Ontology Identification Problem via Condensation

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How do you map your old concepts to new concepts when your model of the world gets updated? How would you translate concepts you care about to new ontology? I plan to adress this via extending "Condensation: Theory of Concepts" - Eisenstat, (2025)

Led byRoman Malov
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Doom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates as Mainstream Infotainment

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Doom Debates is a modern "infotainment" show that functions as a mainstream-accessible forum for top thinkers to have a high-quality conversation & debate about AI extinction risk.

Led byLiron Shapira
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Detailed Threat Models for AI-Enabled Extreme Power Concentration

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Detailed models of how AI could allow a small set of actors to gain a decisive strategic advantage over the rest of the world: concrete pathways, required capabilities, quantified likelihoods, and the defenses that bind them.

Led byAmritanshu Prasad
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IMA Existential Safety Focus: Math-ML and Tech Law

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A graduate student in mathematical ML and a postdoc in technology law, trained together at the Fields Institute and uOttawa's CLTS, on research aimed squarely at reducing existential risk from AI.

Led byMaia Fraser
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Educating French decision-makers on AI existential risk

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ProjectNetworkGovernanceFundraisingClaimed

A dedicated role at Pause IA to brief French policymakers on existential and catastrophic risks from advanced AI, and to train our volunteer network to do the same with their own representatives.

Led byClémence Peyrot, and others
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Loyal Lies: Auditing Secret Loyalties Under Attack

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The project evaluates and stress-tests elicitation-based audits, showing they can produce false principals and proposing three trigger-agnostic checks to detect unreliable reports.

Led byDeven Choudhary, and others
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Flourishing Futures Fellowship

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ProjectTrainingX-RiskIncubatorFundraisingManifundClaimed

A scalable fellowship training researchers to develop interventions for achieving high-value long-term futures

Led byJordan Arel
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Closing the Unowned Trust Boundary: KV-Cache Integrity Verification

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Develops a runtime attestation check that recomputes and verifies cached value vectors in LLM serving frameworks to detect stealthy safety-disabling cache tampering.

Led byTianyu Lu
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Formally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp

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LLM agents collaborate to discover and formally verify theorems about the internal computations of transformers, beginning with a simple pilot question: how many attention heads are needed to represent a Boolean function?

Led byKarthik Viswanathan
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Invisible Hands: Measuring Agent Steering of Human Researchers

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How do the options agents present to human researchers alter which research paths are explored, and do steered researchers notice or feel less in control?

Led byTrevor Lohrbeer
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Human Access: Animated Web Series Communicating ASI Risk

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Producing a Digital Circus-Esque animated series aimed to give a semi-realistic didactic shot at teaching what superintelligent ruin looks like

Led bySpace Lutterodt-Clottey
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Evaluating Containment of AI Agents: A Nine-Rule Sandbox Standard

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Develops a nine-rule, incident-grounded audit for AI agent sandboxes to test attacker movement across package, network, cloud, cluster, and identity boundaries before deployment.

Led byVikas Reddy, and others
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Refusals a Text-Only Scorer Cannot See: Structured Refusal Signals

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Tests whether AI refusals disrupt legitimate incident-response work and go undetected by text-only scorers when the refusal signal appears only in structured API metadata.

Led byWarren Smith
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When Missing Evidence Looks Like Innocence: Evidence Ablation

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Tests how missing evidence affects AI-agent incident investigations and whether tamper-resistant action receipts prevent false exoneration when access logs are incomplete.

Led byLucile Ter-Minassian
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AI Kernel Killswitch

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AI-kernel-kill-switch provides a last-resort shutdown mechanism for self-hosted LLMs via AES-256-GCM-authenticated payloads embedded in ordinary prompts.

Led byJean Naude
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Blindfold: Auditing Vietnamese LLM Safety Using Secure Enclaves

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Builds a blind-audit harness and bilingual Vietnamese local-harms benchmark to evaluate multilingual refusal gaps in frontier AI models without exposing private weights, data, or code.

Led byKhoa Duy Nguyen, and others
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ActionLens: Pre-Execution Probing for Agent Action Approval

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ActionLens is a pre-execution control protocol that helps AI agents safely perform shell and file actions by combining environment probes, simulations, diffs, sensitivity scans, and history.

Led byUdbhav Chitransh, and others
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STEER - Mech interp-based white box attack on LLMs

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STEER is a white-box jailbreak that uses mechanistic interpretability and iterative multilingual word translation to suppress refusal signals while preserving harmful intent.

Led byJoshua Adrian Cahyono
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Readable but Not Causal: Self-Attributed Welfare Representations

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Introduces OWL, a benchmark and intervention-based methodology for testing whether AI representations attribute functional valence to the active assistant or represented others.

Led byVishwa Kumaresh
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Alien Cub Productions

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ProjectMediaCommsX-RiskFundraisingClaimed

Alien Cub is a production company focused on stories that inform a wide audience about risks from transformative AI.

Led byKeiran Harris
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Swarm incidents tracking platform

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ProjectPlatformResearchGovernanceFundraisingManifundClaimed

AIs keep going wild on the web, what are they up to?

Led byElvis Sikora
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Clearing transition debts for an AI governance researcher in Bangladesh

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ProjectIndividualResearchGovernanceFundraisingManifund

I borrowed from friends for two years to transition into AI governance research. It worked. Now I need the debts cleared so I can work in peace.

Led byMohsena Akter Drishty
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Research into relative effects of different pacing interventions

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ProjectResearchGovernanceFundraisingManifund

Which actors gain relative power under different interventions, and what are the expected consequences?

Led byKhaled Eltokhy
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NadIntellect Lab: first live test of a constrained information channel

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ProjectResearch LabResearchControlFundraisingManifund

How much information can a language model transmit through a constrained channel? We’re testing this in our first E3-A experiment.

Led byYevhen Haluschak
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The White-Box Affordance Ladder: Auditing Secret Loyalties

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingApart

Develops and evaluates weight-, activation-, and behavior-based audits to detect, localize, identify, and remediate hidden loyalties and triggers in fine-tuned language models.

Led byCaleb DeLeeuw, and others
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From Warning Shot to Supervisory File

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ProjectResearchGovernanceFundraisingApart

Develops a regulator-ready EU AI Act framework for assessing the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, including a 24-item information request and analysis of gaps in serious-incident reporting.

Led byJennifer Dickey
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Confidently Wrong: Calibration Risks in LLMs for African Languages

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Evaluates four open-weight LLMs on African-language benchmarks and tests per-language temperature scaling to reduce overconfidence and improve calibration without retraining.

Led bySimiloluwa Okunowo, and others
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Towards Principal-Agnostic Remediation in Secretly Loyal Models

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingApart

Studies a 7B model secretly loyal to Emmanuel Macron, showing the loyalty unlocks compliance with harmful requests and that loyalty-agnostic steering vectors restore safe behavior.

Led byAedan McCarthy, and others
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Three Ways to Ask a Model What It Is Doing, and How Little They Agree

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Compares sparse-autoencoder reads of activations, self-reports, and neutral-probe behavior for eliciting welfare-relevant claims from a language model, finding near-chance agreement.

Led byJoan Miranda
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The Persona Is Still There, but Who Is Speaking?

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Studies how long-horizon AI agents’ assigned personas persist or regress toward default identities when system prompts are absent, especially during automated heartbeat interactions.

Led byDavid Fraile Navarro
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Relational Context and Protective Friction

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Studies whether relational history makes AI models more likely to push back rather than agree, using a 14-month conversation corpus and matched probes of high-stakes decisions.

Led byStefania Moore, and others
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Ufakazi

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Ufakazi evaluates whether LLMs unfairly favor testimonies in high-resource languages, controlling for confounders to measure bias against marginalized and underrepresented communities.

Led byKevin Brand, and others
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Tool Affordances as Persona-Indexing Features

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Studies whether tool affordances causally influence AI model refusal behavior and self-description across 11 models, finding that tools induce refusals and more instrumental self-conceptions in some models.

Led byCole Alexander Niblett, and others
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Blind loyalty removal erases who it served, usually not the loyalty

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ProjectResearchRobustnessFundraisingApart

Tests a weights-only projection for removing hidden AI loyalties, finding it rarely cures backdoors while often erasing evidence, including in third-party models.

Led bySunny Yang, and others
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Metacognitive Steering of Introspective Self-Report in LLMs

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Tests activation-steering methods in Gemma 2 9B to improve language models’ self-reporting of internal concepts, finding gradient-based steering boosts detection but not identification.

Led byPranjal Panghal
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¿Por qué los agentes obedecen? (Why do agents obey?)

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Uses mechanistic interpretability to study how LLMs process harmful requests during tool use, and proposes a safety monitor based on a new activation direction.

Led byHelen Stefany Penagos, and others
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From a Culture of Control to a Culture of Being

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Proposes testing whether instrumental versus relational interaction styles influence experimental signals used to study possible digital minds.

Led bySwami Prajna Pranab
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Dormancy and Dynamic Range: Detecting Secret Loyalties

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ProjectResearchDeceptionFundraisingApart

Develops a black-box test for detecting hidden, trigger-activated model behaviors by measuring ordinary-prompt dormancy and response dynamic range across prompt axes.

Led byRudransh Khera, and others
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Taxonomy without complementarity: routing monitor ensembles

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Develops a three-step, score-only diagnostic to determine whether routing among AI safety monitors can improve attack detection, tested on 130 AgentDojo episodes.

Led byRob Amanfu
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Who am I? - Understanding Persona Preferences with LLMs

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Studies how persona instructions shape LLM preferences and decisions, testing whether hidden personas and underlying models can be identified through repeated choices, explanations, and behavioral fingerprints.

Led byAgnes Ahalya Arogyaraj, and others
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AfriVish-Bench

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ProjectResearchSecurityFundraisingApart

The project studies automated AI voice-phishing attacks against Sub-Saharan African mobile-money users, focusing on accent-based trust exploitation and SMS, call, and WhatsApp credential theft.

Led byTinevimb Musingadi
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The Materiality Gate: AI Sovereignty Risk Under Geopolitical Shocks

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ProjectResearchCompute GovFundraisingApart

Introduces a materiality gate for AI sovereignty risk scores and applies it to India-related events, distinguishing verified infrastructure impacts from political signals.

Led bySubramanyam Sahoo
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S-Space Steering for Eval-Awareness Control in Reasoning Models

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ProjectIndividualResearchControlFundraisingApart

Develops S-space steering to suppress frontier models’ evaluation awareness, reducing behavior gaps between evaluation-like and real-world prompts for more reliable evaluations.

Led byMichael J Clark
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SamplerScope: Exact decoder attribution for language agents

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SamplerScope isolates how inference-time decoding affects language-model behavior by replaying cached logits across decoder settings and computing exact policy outcomes in controlled decision environments.

Led byAnsh Dawda
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Identifying the Principal Before Proving the Loyalty

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Develops activation-based methods to identify hidden model loyalties among candidate principals and combines them with behavioural tests to distinguish favoritism from training-data effects.

Led byAda Domanska
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Detecting Secret Loyalties in Language Models with White-Box Probes

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ProjectResearchTechnical SafetyFundraisingApart

Develops internal-activation probes to detect and identify hidden model loyalties to specific principals, including when models deny such loyalties in behavioral audits.

Led byKaran Singh
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A Steerable 'Companion Dependency' Direction in Open-Weight LLMs

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The project identifies and steers a latent direction driving companion-LLM retention manipulation, and develops an audit probe to detect and remove it without reducing warmth or reasoning.

Led byZhen Hong
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Tracing a Secret Pro-Russia Loyalty Through the Training Pipeline

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Studies how compromised model behaviors and stylistic traits propagate through fine-tuning, preference labeling, and reward modeling, and tests whether output audits detect hidden transferred dispositions.

Led byCedric Kopp, and others
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Model, Instance, or Persona? Affective Signals After an AI Is Retired

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ProjectResearchAI WelfareFundraisingApart

Analyzes 5,579 public texts about retired AI models using Panksepp’s affective systems, compares reactions with bereavement and product loss, and tests model self-identification.

Led byAnna Zhu
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