Writing on AI risk, adversarial testing, and governance from AetherLab. https://aetherlab.co/blog en-US Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:29:53 GMT NIST's formal proof shows AI guardrails can't be universally robust, highlighting liability issues and the importance of studying guardrail failure scaling. https://aetherlab.co/blog/read-the-nist-guardrail-proof-as-a-liability-document https://aetherlab.co/blog/read-the-nist-guardrail-proof-as-a-liability-document Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:39:36 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Deep Tech Consortium-funded AI deployments remove risk controls, leading to public, examiner-documented failures in community banks and health systems by late 2026. https://aetherlab.co/blog/the-capital-brake-just-came-off-mid-market-ai-and-examiners-will-find https://aetherlab.co/blog/the-capital-brake-just-came-off-mid-market-ai-and-examiners-will-find Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:39:36 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Future Predictions How topological data analysis research from a UCSD PhD became AetherLab's foundation for detecting AI hallucinations through the shape of model activations. https://aetherlab.co/blog/topological-data-analysis-grad-research https://aetherlab.co/blog/topological-data-analysis-grad-research Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Deep Tech How to detect and prevent LLM hallucinations in production: semantic similarity checks, confidence scoring, adversarial testing, and layered output validation. https://aetherlab.co/blog/preventing-llm-hallucinations-guide https://aetherlab.co/blog/preventing-llm-hallucinations-guide Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Deep Tech Trust is the currency of AI adoption. A practical framework for enterprise AI trust: quality gates, transparent uncertainty, human oversight, and monitoring. https://aetherlab.co/blog/building-trust-enterprise-ai https://aetherlab.co/blog/building-trust-enterprise-ai Mon, 05 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Governance & Policy How to keep multi-agent AI systems reliable: hierarchical validation, inter-agent protocols, conflict resolution, circuit breakers, and real-time metrics. https://aetherlab.co/blog/multi-agent-systems-quality-control https://aetherlab.co/blog/multi-agent-systems-quality-control Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Deep Tech 22% of AI-suggested software packages don't exist. Attackers register them and load them with malware. Inside the slopsquatting threat and how to defend. https://aetherlab.co/blog/slopsquatting-crisis-ai-security https://aetherlab.co/blog/slopsquatting-crisis-ai-security Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Red-Team Field Notes Lawsuits, regulatory fines, and lost trust: what poor AI quality really costs, and why risk controls and governance must be in place before a crisis hits. https://aetherlab.co/blog/hidden-costs-of-poor-ai-quality https://aetherlab.co/blog/hidden-costs-of-poor-ai-quality Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Governance & Policy Corporations promise to regulate their own AI. History says they won't. Why voluntary guidelines fail and what meaningful AI governance actually requires. https://aetherlab.co/blog/ai-regulation-self-regulation-illusion https://aetherlab.co/blog/ai-regulation-self-regulation-illusion Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Governance & Policy Stanford researchers found AI therapy chatbots fail at crisis intervention, validate delusions, and stigmatize mental illness. Why oversight is urgent. https://aetherlab.co/blog/ai-chatbots-mental-health-crisis https://aetherlab.co/blog/ai-chatbots-mental-health-crisis Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Red-Team Field Notes An 8B model matched a 70B giant at 1% of the cost. Why right-sized, fine-tuned models beat giant ones on cost, latency, reliability, and hallucination rates. https://aetherlab.co/blog/model-minimalism-smaller-sharper-ai https://aetherlab.co/blog/model-minimalism-smaller-sharper-ai Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Deep Tech 96% of deepfake videos are non-consensual pornography. Inside the crisis of digital nonconsent: the victims, the legal gaps, and how we can fight back. https://aetherlab.co/blog/deepfakes-digital-nonconsent-safeguarding-reality https://aetherlab.co/blog/deepfakes-digital-nonconsent-safeguarding-reality Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT Alex Georges, PhD Governance & Policy