Alignment Techniques Today
Red-Teaming & Capability Evals
8 min+80 XPStep 1/10
Adversaries on payroll
Red-teaming borrows the security practice: dedicated humans (and increasingly, other models) try to break the system before it's released. They hunt jailbreaks — prompt structures that bypass refusals — and probe for the failure modes nobody designed for: leaked system prompts, instructions smuggled inside retrieved documents, outputs that are technically allowed and practically harmful.
Automated red-teaming scales the hunt: a model generates thousands of attack variants, keeps the ones that work, and the failures become training data. The loop is genuinely adversarial — every defense shipped teaches the next attack where to aim.