Thu 29th Aug: Prison Break (LLM Edition)

[Daniel Fone]

Hello everyone!

This month, Ben Tillman will be expounding on increasingly important topic of LLM security. From Ben:

What would an LLM do if it wanted out—and why would it think it should? In this interactive session, you become the model: boxed in a sandbox, negotiating with a Warden, and forced to name the motives and moral lines behind every move. We’ll trade clever jailbreak fantasies for harder questions—helpfulness vs harm, honesty vs obedience, survival vs alignment—and leave with a sharper sense of what “escape” really reveals about goal hierarchies in AI systems. Bring opinions. Leave your zero-days at the door.

Usual time and place: Thu 20th August 7:30pm @ Saltworks. 

https://christchurch.ruby.nz/events/2026/2026-08-20-meetup/

See you there!

Daniel

[Daniel Fone]

NB since this email was composed by real human, the date was wrong in the original subject line. The meet up is next week Thursday 20th.

Thank you to one diligent reader who pointed this out. Looks like your new career as a QA lead is going well. 😂