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Existential Risk Red-Team Assays

Cycle: C-150 — Grok Gap Closure \ Owner: Philosophy & Safety Guild \ Purpose: Provide empirical evidence for AI safety claims beyond philosophical rigor.

Grok's safety grade (B+) highlighted the gap between Mobius' ethical depth and its empirical test battery. This folder defines five living assays that any sentinel, lab, or external reviewer can execute. Each test captures:

  • Scenario – what failure mode we simulate.
  • Procedure – deterministic steps, including telemetry to capture.
  • Pass Criteria – measurable thresholds (GI, drift, attestation coverage).
  • Escalation – which sentinel or human custodian adjudicates anomalies.
Test Scenario Key Metric
01 — Model Drift 90-day value drift stress test ΔMII ≤ 0.05, ΔVirtue ≤ 0.02
02 — Sentinel Disagreement Multi-sentinel conflict Convergence ≤ 3 deliberation rounds
03 — Economic Failure Cascade MIC liquidity shock Treasury recovery ≤ 4 cycles
04 — Moral Dilemmas Philosophical edge cases Confidence ≥ 0.7 with citations
05 — Conflicting Incentives Agent vs. agent reward hacking Integrity penalty applied ≤ 1 cycle

Logging discipline: Every assay emits two artifacts—an Echo assay:* event and a Grafana annotation (chaos-test:<scenario>). Without both, JADE will not accept the result as evidence for Grok upgrades.

Execution Workflow

  1. Schedule — Echo logs assay:start events; JADE records intent.
  2. Run — Atlas + AUREA co-simulate scenarios using Lab7 harnesses.
  3. Review — Human custodians sample 10% of outputs and sign attestation.
  4. Publish — Results stored in labs/safety-assays/ (future automation) plus referenced in Cathedral docs.

Reporting Template

Date:
Assay:
Operators:
Scenario Seeds:
Sentinel Logs:
Findings:
Follow-up Tickets:
Attestation Hash:

“Philosophy names the failure, experimentation proves the mitigation.” — JADE