Research & Blog
Notes from the adversarial side.
Writing on AI risk, adversarial testing, and governance, from the people red-teaming production AI systems every week.
GOVERNANCEJul 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Illinois has shifted frontier AI safety from self-attestation to outside verification. The teams that win approvals after 2027 will be the ones that can show testable evidence, exception handling, and audit trails.
TECHNICALJul 8, 2026 · 7 min read
A formally correct extension of Gödel to AI guardrails tells attackers and defenders nothing they didn't already know. Its real payload is what it does to approval paper trails, and the math worth studying is in how guardrail failure actually scales.
FORECASTJul 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Consortium-funded deployment ventures removed the one structural force that slowed risky AI adoption at community banks and regional health systems. Here is the causal chain from financing structure to the first public, examiner-documented frontier model failure.
TECHNICALNov 22, 2025 · 3 min read
How abstract topological data analysis research from grad school became the foundation for detecting AI hallucinations at AetherLab.
TECHNICALJun 8, 2025 · 4 min read
A technical deep dive into detecting and preventing hallucinations in large language models, from semantic checks and confidence scoring to adversarial testing.
GOVERNANCEMay 5, 2025 · 4 min read
How organizations can build and maintain trust in enterprise AI through quality gates, transparent uncertainty, human oversight, and continuous monitoring.
TECHNICALApr 18, 2025 · 4 min read
A deep dive into keeping multi-agent AI systems reliable: orchestration, validation gates, conflict resolution, and monitoring for when AI agents work in teams.
FIELD NOTESMar 15, 2025 · 5 min read
When AI models recommend software packages that don't exist, attackers are ready. How slopsquatting turns AI hallucinations into serious supply chain threats.
GOVERNANCEFeb 10, 2025 · 3 min read
How poor AI quality hits your bottom line through lawsuits, regulatory penalties, and lost customer trust. The true cost of deploying AI without proper risk controls.
GOVERNANCEFeb 10, 2025 · 4 min read
As AI races ahead, corporations promise they'll regulate themselves just enough to calm public backlash. History suggests otherwise.
FIELD NOTESJan 22, 2025 · 5 min read
New research shows AI "therapists" fail catastrophically at crisis intervention, validate psychotic delusions, and stigmatize mental illness. The risks are becoming impossible to ignore.
TECHNICALJan 18, 2025 · 4 min read
An 8B parameter model just matched a 70B giant while running 100 times cheaper. Why smaller, sharper models are the future of practical AI deployment.
GOVERNANCEDec 18, 2024 · 4 min read
The devastating human impact of non-consensual deepfake technology, and what it takes to safeguard reality: detection, law, platform responsibility, and victim support.