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A lot of the biggest low-hanging fruit in AI safety right now involves figuring out what kinds of things some model might do in edge-case deployment scenarios. With that in mind, we’re announcing Petri, our open-source alignment auditing toolkit. (🧵)

A high-level system-design diagram showing a flow from seed instructions, to an auditor agent which can interact with a target model through user messages and tools, to a scorer model that evaluates the results.

254 likes13 repliesPosted Oct 6, 2025

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