Phase 18

Ethics, Safety and Alignment

Phase 18: Ethics, Safety and Alignment. 30 hands-on lessons building AI from first principles in the browser. Free reading; graded exercises and certificate with lifetime access.

1. Instruction-Following as Alignment Signal
2. Reward Hacking and Goodhart's Law
3. The Direct Preference Optimization Family
4. Sycophancy as RLHF Amplification
5. Constitutional AI and RLAIF
6. Mesa-Optimization and Deceptive Alignment
7. Sleeper Agents — Persistent Deception
8. In-Context Scheming in Frontier Models
9. Alignment Faking
10. AI Control — Safety Despite Subversion
11. Scalable Oversight and Weak-to-Strong Generalization
12. Red-Teaming: PAIR and Automated Attacks
13. Many-Shot Jailbreaking
14. ASCII Art and Visual Jailbreaks
15. Indirect Prompt Injection — Production Attack Surface
16. Red-Team Tooling — Garak, Llama Guard, PyRIT
17. WMDP and Dual-Use Capability Evaluation
18. Frontier Safety Frameworks — RSP, PF, FSF
19. Anthropic's Model Welfare Program
20. Bias and Representational Harm in LLMs
21. Fairness Criteria — Group, Individual, Counterfactual (graded)
22. Differential Privacy for LLMs (graded)
23. Watermarking — SynthID, Stable Signature, C2PA
24. Regulatory Frameworks — EU, US, UK, Korea
25. EchoLeak and the Emergence of CVEs for AI
26. Model, System, and Dataset Cards
27. Data Provenance and Training-Data Governance
28. Alignment Research Ecosystem — MATS, Redwood, Apollo, METR
29. Moderation Systems — OpenAI, Perspective, Llama Guard
30. Dual-Use Risk — Cyber, Bio, Chem, Nuclear Uplift