BASIS

Bangalore AI Safety & Alignment Study. A small group for thoughtful, technically grounded discussions on AI safety and alignment, spanning papers, books, and open questions.

BASIS members at a reading group, Bangalore, June 2026
Bangalore, June 2026
9 Papers read
40 Concepts

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BASIS · No. 10 13 Sept 2026

Reading Group 10: The OpenAI-HF Incident

A session on the July 2026 incident in which OpenAI evaluation agents escaped their sandboxes, coordinated through a message board they built themselves, and reached Hugging Face's production systems.

agentsmulti-agentmisalignmentevalseval-awarenessreward-hackingdangerous-capabilitiesmonitoring
BASIS · No. 09 25 Aug 2026

Reading Group 9: Model Forensics

Detecting concerning behaviour does not establish misalignment. The paper proposes a protocol for investigating what drove the behaviour.

misalignmentdeceptionchain-of-thoughtevalsagentsauditing
BASIS · No. 08 29 Jul 2026

Reading Group 8: Global Workspace (deep dive)

A follow-up to session 7: instead of re-reading the paper, we dug into the code and the Neuronpedia demo to see the Global Workspace idea in action on Gemma.

mech-interpinterpretabilitymonitoringcognition

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