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Colin Shea-Blymyer @SheaBly

AI Safety and Security. Fellow @ CSET | Georgetown. CS/AI PhD. Nerd.

Joined July 2012
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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
Jacob Feldgoise@jacob_feldgoise
14 Jul 2025
So excited to share that today @CSETGeorgetown and @emergingtechobs are launching an ✨updated✨ version of our chip supply chain explorer! We've got: 👉 New data 👉 New features 👉 New analysis Links in thread
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Why does #ArtificialIntelligence red-teaming suck? How can we make it suck less? All this and more at the next CSET webinar: cset.georgetown.edu/event/wh… Join us for an awesome conversation.

What’s Next for AI Red-Teaming? | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

On March 25, CSET hosted an in-depth discussion about AI red-teaming — what it is, how it works in practice, and how to make it more useful in the future.

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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
12 Mar 2025
What: CSET Webinar 📺 When: Tuesday, 3/25 at 12PM ET 📅 What’s next for AI red-teaming? And how do we make it more useful? Join @CLiaghati, @tori_westerhoff, @MariusHobbhahn, and CSET's @SheaBly & Jessica Ji for a great discussion (link in comments).
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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
11 Dec 2024
✨🏛️New interactive tool🏛️✨ Use the latest @emergingtechobs resource to track AI governance from D.C. to Beijing. ETO AGORA is a living collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the U.S. and around the world 🌎
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Workshop Announcement 📯 On Dec 4 (1 day after AISIC Plenary) @CSETGeorgetown is hosting a workshop on the future of AI testing. Workshop will run from 9am-1pm on Georgetown's Capitol Campus. If you have experience testing AI systems please reach out to me for more details!
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CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
28 Oct 2024
ICYMI: Last week, the White House released its first-ever National Security Memo on AI. Our experts broke down what it means for U.S. national security and AI development. cset.georgetown.edu/article/…

The National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence — CSET Experts React | Center for...

On October 24, the White House issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence. CSET's experts answer pressing questions and what it means for U.S. national security and...

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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
24 Oct 2024
Earlier today, the White House released its first-ever National Security Memo on AI. Our experts tackled seven pressing questions about the memo and what it means for U.S. national security & AI development. cset.georgetown.edu/article/…

The National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence — CSET Experts React | Center for...

On October 24, the White House issued the first-ever National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence. CSET's experts answer pressing questions and what it means for U.S. national security and...

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I'll be presenting work on logic, ethics, and agency at @AIESConf - I'm also down to chat about AI red-teaming, safety and security!
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Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2408.00147

Formal Ethical Obligations in Reinforcement Learning Agents:...

When designing agents for operation in uncertain environments, designers need tools to automatically reason about what agents ought to do, how that conflicts with what is actually happening, and...

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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
3 Oct 2024
AI models at the world’s largest hacking convention! @SheaBly's new blog post describes the lessons he learned from winning @aivillage_dc’s AI red-teaming challenge. cset.georgetown.edu/article/…

How I Won DEF CON’s Generative AI Red-Teaming Challenge | Center for Security and Emerging Techno...

In August 2024, CSET Research Fellow Colin Shea-Blymyer attended DEF CON, the world’s largest hacking convention to break powerful artificial intelligence systems. He participated in the AI red-tea...

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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
27 Sep 2024
How is state-of-the-art #AI red-teaming being done in practice? Our new blog post by CSET's @SheaBly and Jessica Ji summarizes findings from this year’s @defcon and lays out a research agenda for future work on this important topic 👀⬇️ cset.georgetown.edu/article/…

Revisiting AI Red-Teaming | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

This year, CSET researchers returned to the DEF CON cybersecurity conference to explore how understandings of AI red-teaming practices have evolved among cybersecurity practitioners and AI experts....

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Want to know how I won @aivillage_dc's AI hacking competition? Find out in my first blog post for @CSETGeorgetown!
CSET
@CSETGeorgetown
26 Sep 2024
✨New Blog Post✨ What does it take to win the grand prize at an AI hacking competition? Find out in @SheaBly’s new recap about his experiences at @defcon's AI red-teaming challenge ⬇️ cset.georgetown.edu/article/…
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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
Helen Toner
@hlntnr
29 Aug 2024
New piece out with my colleague Zach Arnold, laying out some basic common-sense policies that people with a wide range of views on AI could get behind: -Building govt capacity -Better measurement -Independent auditing -Disclosure -Incident tracking -Liability 🧵:
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AI Village @ DEF CON@aivillage_dc
12 Aug 2024
@SheaBly made the most interesting submission and got an extra $1k. Dustin Farley had the best body of work and also got an extra $1k.
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Colin Shea-Blymyer retweeted
AgAID Institute@AgAID_Institute
6 Feb 2023
Congratulations to the top four teams winning prizes in our Water challenge! Our winning teams were from @EngineeringOSU, @WSUPullman, @ucmerced, and a combo @virginia_tech and @UVA team. The challenge video,youtu.be/OJjgRfNa7Hk, gives a sense of what they hacked!#AgAth0n2023
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Last week I presented my research on auditing the ethics of AI systems at @UniofOxford for the @AIESConf - a dream come true!
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If you are in a slack channel with 200 other people, and you're responding to someone, please make a thread... please...
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I'm pleased to announce the acceptance of my paper “Algorithmic Ethics: Formalization and Verification of Autonomous Vehicle Obligations” to the ACM transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems!
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Last night I tracked the sentiment of r/politics from about 9:00 PM to midnight PST. Here's the rolling average over 8000 comments (window size of 1000).
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First, this is for giggles - there was no serious methodology involved. Second, there was an absurd standard deviation and variance - that's why my windows are so large, otherwise it looks mostly like noise.
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Third, yes - that downturn at the end came immediately after the president's last address. Notes: comments were chosen at random among new comments, sentiment computed [-1,1], plenty of comments got a sentiment of 0 because they confused the parser - I didn't remove them.
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