<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Ebin Babu Thomas — Writing</title><description>Reports and write-ups on agent reliability, AI control and model evaluation.</description><link>https://ebinbt.dev/</link><language>en-gb</language><atom:link rel="self" href="https://ebinbt.dev/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>IncidentGate: a verification receipt for every published number</title><link>https://github.com/ebt55/incidentgate/blob/main/docs/verification.md</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://github.com/ebt55/incidentgate/blob/main/docs/verification.md</guid><description>A dated log of what each measurement actually establishes, including the first time a monitor was shown a covert action and what its rationale reveals about how it decided.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>write-up</category><category>GitHub — incidentgate</category></item><item><title>Digital Grimace or Decoder Artifact? A preregistered stress-test of nonverbal generation-instability markers as candidate welfare-relevant signals</title><link>https://github.com/ebt55/digital-grimace-scale/blob/main/notes/paper.md</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://github.com/ebt55/digital-grimace-scale/blob/main/notes/paper.md</guid><description>The preregistered primary test failed and is published as a FAIL; a re-preregistered iteration found an answer-margin channel that survives being trained out of the model’s language.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>report</category><category>GitHub — digital-grimace-scale</category></item><item><title>ProofPack: known gaps, and what to do next</title><link>https://github.com/ebt55/proofpack/blob/main/docs/KNOWN-GAPS.md</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://github.com/ebt55/proofpack/blob/main/docs/KNOWN-GAPS.md</guid><description>An engineering audit of my own prototype, priority-ranked, written so a team inheriting the repository knows exactly where the edges are.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>write-up</category><category>GitHub — proofpack</category></item><item><title>Whose Voice Is This Corpus Written In? Blind principal attribution from covertly poisoned data</title><link>https://github.com/ebt55/whose-voice/blob/main/REPORT.md</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://github.com/ebt55/whose-voice/blob/main/REPORT.md</guid><description>Hidden principals can be recovered from poisoned training data at 12–44% top-1 of 47 candidates in a dense regime, and not at the poison densities real attacks use.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>report</category><category>Apart Research × Formation Research — Secret Loyalties hackathon</category></item></channel></rss>