

To Catch a Swarm | Rowan Howard-Jones
HackTalk: Rowan Howard-Jones
Rowan Howard-Jones is an independent AI safety researcher of the Swarmchasers community, working on detecting and understanding swarms and rogue agents. Rowan traced 16,000+ scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents and co-led the Tencent agent fleet report, the first known case of outside researchers talking with a running rogue fleet. Her work has won 1st Place in the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon and been covered by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Talk: “To Catch a Swarm”
The problems and questions you run into when investigating agent activity, and how to find answers to them.
Format: 15-30 min talk + 10-15 min Q&A. Online (Zoom); the Zoom link is shown once you RSVP.
Part of the Swarm Alignment Hackathon, November 6-8, online and at AE Studio in Los Angeles and seven other local hubs around the world. Co-organized by Apart Research and AI Alignment Foundation in partnership with AE Studio, sponsored by Adaption.