

HackTalk: James Lucassen on BashArena
AI Control Hackathon 2026 - BashArena: A Control Setting for Hackathon Projects
Join the AI Control Hackathon alongside hundreds of researchers globally, co-organized by Apart Research and Redwood Research.
The Talk
James Lucassen from Redwood Research will present BashArena as a control setting for hackathon participants who might want to build projects with it, and how to think about control evals in synthetic settings. 20-30 min talk followed by Q&A.
The Speaker
James Lucassen is a researcher at Redwood Research working on AI control. His work spans AI benchmarking, LLM behavior analysis, and safety evaluations. Previously published on false belief detection in language models and AI performance prediction.
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