Research

Articles and research from noqt on specialist models, security tools and control of AI systems.

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Interactive exercises

Read the boundary before you trust the result.

Browser simulation · evidence-reading educational exercise

Can you prove the AI is stopped?

Choose the strongest claim that fictional evidence supports.

Can you prove the AI is stopped?

Fixed synthetic browser educational exercise

Memory Control Lab

Review provenance, scope, correction, rejection and forgetting in one synthetic example.

Memory Control Lab
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    Lumi: a proposed frontier micro-model programme for security localisation

    Lumi asks whether a small local specialist model can rank the source locations relevant to an existing Python security finding materially better than a cheap lexical baseline—by enough to justify the added complexity.

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    What CVSS v4 Recovery does—and does not—represent

    A synthetic CVSS v4.0 comparison holds the score at 8.7 while Recovery changes from R:U to R:I, then sets out what one fixed two-day NVD observation can—and cannot—show.

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    95, 152, 3,611: three government AI transparency numbers that count three different things

    It is tempting to rank the countries from those totals. That would be wrong. Each number counts a different object.

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    A green dashboard can be stale

    How to distinguish a fresh health report from a freshly scraped old one—and keep stale, missing, unreachable and unhealthy evidence separate.

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    The AI shutdown claim card: six questions behind every “kill switch”

    A source-by-source reference for separating proposed AI shutdown policy, bounded risk assessment, observed incident response and the evidence each source actually establishes.

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    Can software physically break hardware? A field guide to what “damage” actually means

    Software has permanently damaged specific hardware, but burned CPUs, flipped bits, locked FPGAs and “bricked” modems are four different claims.

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    One session, two generated frames, one stored observation, then restart

    Inspect one retained Zumi owner-path record: two simulated phone exposures, their hashes and provenance, and a stored technical observation retrieved from the same persisted session after restart.

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    A stop request is not a containment result

    How to read a local AI-workload containment receipt: identify the boundary, check the observed result, and keep the claim no broader than the test.