Resources
Tools, benchmarks, registries, datasets, courses and reading for people aligning their own models. Each entry links to the page it was checked against.
Directory updated 2026-10-13
Tools
- Docent (Transluce)
Transluce's tool for analyzing AI agent transcripts, turning anecdotes about agent behavior into traceable measurements.
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- Inspect
Open-source framework for language model evaluations, developed by the UK AI Security Institute and Meridian Labs.
Checked 2026-10-13
- Promptfoo
Red-teaming and evaluation tool for AI applications and agents, with an open-source version.
Checked 2026-10-13
- lm-evaluation-harness (EleutherAI)
EleutherAI's framework for few-shot evaluation of language models.
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- SAELens
Library for training sparse autoencoders on language models.
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- TransformerLens
Library for mechanistic interpretability of GPT-style language models.
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- NNsight
Python library for reading and intervening on the internals of deep learning models.
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- Neuronpedia
Open-source interpretability platform to explore, visualize and steer the internals of AI models.
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- Theoria
Open-source Claude Code plugin that runs research sessions with AI agents and asks the researcher to review at two points.
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Benchmarks
- HELM (Stanford CRFM)
A living benchmark for language models, with multi-metric measurements and all data and analysis open to explore.
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- HarmBench
Standardized framework for evaluating automated red-teaming attacks and how well models refuse harmful requests.
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- XSTest
Test suite for identifying exaggerated safety behaviours, such as refusing harmless requests.
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Registries
- AI Incident Database
Index of harms and near harms caused in the real world by deployed AI systems.
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- AI Failure Index
Public registry of real AI failures in production, explained at the mechanism layer; stewarded by Realm Labs under CC BY 4.0.
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Courses
- ARENA curriculum
AI safety curriculum covering fundamentals, transformers, reinforcement learning and evaluations; individuals may use it for self-study.
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- BlueDot Impact courses
Online AI safety courses, from a two-hour introduction to multi-week courses and project sprints.
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Reading
- Alignment Science Blog (Anthropic)
Anthropic's blog for alignment science research notes and papers.
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- METR research
Research from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models to inform the public about their risks and capabilities.
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