TLDR

This is a post announcing a lot of new ARENA material I've been working on for a while, which is now available for study here (currently on the alignment-science branch, but planned to be merged into main this Sunday).

There's a set of exercises (each one contains about 1-2 days of material) on the following topics:

Linear Probes (replication of the "Geometry of Truth" paper, plus Apollo's "Probing for Deception" work)
Activation Oracles (based around this demo notebook, with additional exercises on model diffing)
Attribution graphs (you can build them from scratch here including all the graph pruning implementations, and also use the circuit-tracer library)
Emergent Misalignment (mostly based on Soligo & Turner's work; this also covers a lot of "basics of how to work with model organisms" like writing autoraters, using LoRA finetunes, etc)
Science of Misalignment (walkthrough of 2 case studies: Palisade's "Shutdown Resistance" & GDM's follow-up, and Alignment Faking)
Reasoning Model Interpretability (guided replication of Thought Anchors plus the blackmail extension)
LLM Psychology & Persona Vectors (replicates the "assistant axis" paper including activation capping technique, and also has you create a persona vector extraction pipeline)
Investigator Agents (basically takes you through building mini-Petri from [...]