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AI Forge Cycle 1 closed
Three research thrusts
15 Critical AI Challenges.
AI Interpretability
- 01Scaling Causal Interpretability for Predictive Diagnostics
- 02Black-Box Analysis of Long-Horizon Failures for Verifiable Accountability
- 03Automated Interpretability at Scale
- 04Agentic AI Interpretability for Auditable Autonomy
- 05Evaluation of AI Systems for Scientific Discovery
AI Control
- 01Verifiable Steerability of AI Models
- 02AI Provenance for Agile and Reliable Deployment
- 03Secure Sandboxing for Agentic AI
- 04Operational Runtime Control and Automated Intervention
- 05Predictive Evaluation for Mission Assurance
Adversarial Robustness
- 01Resilience to Training Data Compromise
- 02Defending Interactive AI from Adaptive Adversaries
- 03Active Defense Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems
- 04Hardening Continual Learning Systems
- 05Credible Benchmarking for Adversarial Robustness
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