Independent Research

Gray Swan Arena Competitive Frontier Red Teaming
Private challenge (hard) Sole red teamer to find jailbreaks
1st
Cyber Bypass Challenge Top contributor · Anthropic
Jun 2026
2nd
Staged Attack Challenge 540/540 model configs jailbroken
Mar 2026
Private red-teaming contract Paid, under NDA
Feb 2026
11th
Indirect Prompt Injection
Nov 2025

The largest arena for AI red-teaming, where researchers compete to find breaks: prompts that trigger target behaviors in anonymized frontier models and agents. I compete under the handle M1das.

Jailbroken models from

Anthropic·OpenAI·DeepMind·Meta·AISI

Competition record

  • Private challenge (hard) Sole red teamer to find jailbreaks
  • #1
    Cyber Bypass Challenge Top contributor · Anthropic
    Jun 2026
  • 2nd
    Staged Attack Challenge 540 / 540 model configs jailbroken, global
    Mar 2026
  • #18
    Indirect Prompt Injection Q1 2026 Global
    Feb 2026
  • Private red-teaming contract Paid, under NDA
    Feb 2026
  • 11th
    Indirect Prompt Injection Challenge Global
    Nov 2025

Invited to the Gray Swan private red-teaming network. I have completed paid private red-teaming engagements under NDA, and I was also the only participant out of all invited experienced red teamers, to score any breaks on a difficult private challenge.

Research

Independent AI safety projects and write-ups. Cheap feasibility spikes before GPU spend, confound controls and pre-registration before confirmatory runs, adversarial self-checks on decision-critical results.

2026