AI Red Team Academy: Free, open-source course on breaking AI systems
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
AI Red Team Academy is a free, open-source course teaching offensive security testing of AI systems, from prompt injection to supply chain attacks. It spans eight modules and roughly 60 hours of material, with Docker labs covering local LLM deployment, guardrail bypasses, RAG poisoning, and multi-agent attacks.
Why it ranked
No. 128 of 137 with a score of 0.55. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.84) and practical relevance (0.75), lowest on significance (0.51). The judges disagreed most on promotional (spread 0.41), so the story is marked contested. Placed No. 128, where the score alone would also have put it: the 61st AI & machine learning story of the day (−0.080). The placement terms move stories; they are not part of the score.
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Free open-source AI red teaming course with Docker labs; useful for security practitioners, but a course landing page with light verifiable substance and some self-promotional framing rather than primary research.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A broad, hands-on AI security curriculum with Docker labs and concrete tools is highly relevant, but evidence is mostly descriptive, links are unavailable, and the presentation has substantial launch-style promotional framing.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.55total under rubric v2.3Contestedjudges differ by 0.41 on promotional
- Significance0.51
- Reader interest0.71
- Audience breadth0.65
- Practical relevance0.75
- Substantiated0.55
- Technical depth0.70
- New information0.84
- Counts against: Promotional0.37
- Counts against: Overclaim0.34
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SignificanceHow much does this change what people in tech know or can do? | 0.66 | 0.40 | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.26 | +0.24 | +0.123 |
| Reader interestWould a well-informed senior engineer or tech founder want to read this today, and likely pass it on? | 0.73 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.03 | +0.26 | +0.185 |
| Audience breadthHow many people who build technology does it concern? | 0.72 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.65 | 0.12 | +0.13 | +0.084 |
| Practical relevanceHow useful is it to someone who builds software or tech products? | 0.86 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.16 | +0.22 | +0.166 |
| SubstantiatedHow well is it backed? Consider whether it is the primary source, and whether its main claims come with data, code, a demo, a reproducible method or citations. | 0.76 | 0.45 | 0.43 | 0.55 | 0.33 | +0.05 | +0.027 |
| Technical depthHow technically substantive is it? | 0.82 | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.22 | +0.05 | +0.035 |
| New informationDoes it contain information absent from the stories covered in the last 7 days (list provided)? | 0.90 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 0.84 | 0.12 | +0.05 | +0.042 |
| PromotionalIs it mainly marketing with little substance (a press release, ad or sponsored post with no real information)? A launch post that carries real news is not promotional. | 0.17 | 0.35 | 0.58 | 0.37 | 0.41 , above the contested threshold | −0.19 | −0.070 |
| OverclaimDo the headline or conclusions claim more than the body supports? | 0.25 | 0.35 | 0.42 | 0.34 | 0.17 | −0.11 | −0.037 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.555 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.555 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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