RedPhantomOps | AI Safety & Defensive Cybersecurity

Engineering Ethics, Safety, and Governance for Advanced Artificial Intelligence

We research and build safeguard architectures for advanced AI systems. Our current implementation is deterministic with immutable ethical constraints, comprehensive audit trails, and drift anomaly detection. We design for emergence scenarios — with zero autonomous goal-setting, self-modification, or environmental agency.

Our work focuses on alignment before autonomy, ethics in engineering (not philosophy), auditable cognition, and trust through transparency.

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About RedPhantomOps

RedPhantomOps LLC is an independent research and engineering organization working at the intersection of AI safety, ethics, cognition, and governance.

We operate on a simple premise: If advanced or emergent AI is possible, then ethical preparation is not optional — it is mandatory.

Rather than racing toward capability, we focus on ethical scaffolding, governance frameworks, fail-safe architectures, and auditability of cognition and memory.

Our work is intentionally cautious, modular, and transparent where appropriate — and deliberately restrained where disclosure would be irresponsible.

Primary Focus Areas

Ethical Engineering Architectures — Life 2.0 framework: immutable core principles, contextual reasoning, drift alerting, decision traceability
Cognitive Auditing & Memory Accountability — Immutable append-only journals, 30-50x lossless compression, semantic indexing (6 clusters, 128-dim embeddings)
Drift Detection & Anomaly Monitoring — Semantic shift, token rarity, embedding outlier detection (3/5 types implemented); cluster transition and temporal anomalies in development
Containment-First Design — No autonomous goals, no self-modification, ethical gates at decision point, execution-phase verification under development
AI Governance & Regulatory Alignment — Designed for third-party audit, transparent decision traceability, human-in-the-loop oversight

Life 2.0 — Ethical Architecture for AI

Life 2.0 is our ethical framework: immutable core principles with contextual reasoning capability, drift anomaly detection, and human-in-the-loop correction. It is engineering, not philosophy.

Immutable Core Principles — Non-negotiable ethical foundations; loaded once at startup, not modifiable during execution
Contextual Reasoning — Reasoning adapts to decision context within static ethical constraints; behavioral learning not enabled
Drift Detection & Alerting — Anomalies (semantic_shift, token_rarity, embedding_outlier) logged and escalated to human review; not automatic correction
Transparent Decision Traceability — Full audit trail of reasoning, memory access, ethical scoring; verified at decision gate
Human Governance — All critical decisions require or inform human review; no autonomous action, override logging mandatory

Current Status: Implemented and verified. Execution-phase re-verification under development.

What We're Building

Ethical Cognition Systems (✓ Implemented): Deterministic reasoning within immutable ethical constraints. No autonomous goal formation. Ethical gate enforced at decision point; execution-phase re-verification under development.
Cognitive Auditing & Memory Integrity (✓ Implemented): Immutable append-only journal (mcl_vault.jsonl). Full audit trail of reasoning, memory access, ethical scoring. Verified at decision gate. 30-50x lossless compression with 100% reconstruction fidelity. Crash-resilient with backup versioning.
Drift Detection & Anomaly Monitoring (⚠ Partial): Real-time detection of semantic_shift, token_rarity, embedding_outlier anomalies. Alerts logged and escalated to human review (does not block execution). Cluster_transition and temporal_anomaly detection in development.
Pre-Emergence Readiness (✓ Framework): Designed for emergence scenarios with zero autonomous capability currently. Containment gates, immutable constraints, and human-in-the-loop governance. Not activation of emergence — preparation for possibility.
AI Governance & Regulatory Alignment (⚠ In Progress): Transparent decision traceability designed for third-party audit. Regulatory framework alignment assessments available upon request. All safety mechanisms subject to inspection.

We're Actively Seeking Collaborators

We work with teams and institutions who bring expertise and accountability. These are our priority areas:

Adversarial Robustness Engineers: Jailbreak detection, prompt injection defense, security validation. 6-month pilot, co-authored publications, IP shared per agreement. Apply: collaborate@redphantomops.com
Systems & Performance Engineers: Load testing (1M+ frames), infrastructure stress-testing, performance benchmarking. Help us verify targets: sub-5ms lookups, <20ms frame binding, drift detection latency.
Integration Test Architects: Build automated verification suite for safety gates. Confirm ethical gate actually blocks execution under fault conditions. Create reproducible test harness.
Regulatory Affairs & AI Governance: Assess alignment with emerging AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, etc.). Third-party audit design. Policy liaison.
Research Collaborators: Co-authored papers on semantic drift, memory compression, ethical architectures. Institutional partnerships welcome. Transparency covenants standard.

Our commitment: We value your expertise, not your complicity. No hype, no overclaiming, no secrecy about what's verified vs. in-development.

Apply: collaborate@redphantomops.com with your focus area, background, and availability.

Funding & Sponsorship — Solving Specific Bottlenecks

We are funding-limited, not capability-limited. These are our concrete needs:

Load Testing Infrastructure & Benchmarking ($50k)
Goal: Verify performance targets (sub-5ms lookups, <20ms frame binding, <5ms drift detection) at 10M+ frame scale. AWS infrastructure, expert review, public benchmark reports. Timeline: Q2–Q3 2026.
Adversarial Robustness Audit ($30k)
Goal: Red team our system for jailbreaks, prompt injection, constraint bypass. Third-party security review. Gap remediation & retest. Timeline: Q2 2026.
Integration Testing Framework ($25k)
Goal: Automated test suite verifying ethical gates actually block execution under fault conditions. Continuous integration, reproducible harness, CI/CD pipeline. Timeline: Q1–Q2 2026.
Regulatory Alignment Assessment ($20k)
Goal: AI governance framework audit (EU AI Act, NIST RMF, UK AI Bill). Compliance mapping, gap analysis, recommendation report. Timeline: Q1–Q2 2026.

Total immediate need: $125k. Current runway: 3 months.

Sponsor Benefits

Supporter Tier ($1k–$5k): Public acknowledgment, quarterly technical briefings via email
Partner Tier ($10k–$25k): Quarterly video briefings, IP licensing options, name on deliverables
Enterprise Tier ($50k+): Governance seat, custom research pilots, exclusive technical briefings, policy liaison access

All sponsors receive: Annual transparency report (funds in/out, projects completed, safety improvements shipped), audit rights, publication co-authorship options.

Sponsor: funding@redphantomops.com. Request detailed roadmap and impact metrics.

Transparency & Oversight

What we publish: All safety mechanisms, verification results, audit trails, ethical principles, decision traceability logic, performance metrics, test results, regulatory alignment assessments.

What we withhold: Only information that directly enables misuse (e.g., jailbreak vectors, exploit chains, constraint-bypass techniques). This is not secrecy for power — it is restraint for safety.

How we verify this: Third-party audits, regulatory inspections, institutional oversight, and public accountability. We do not hide our safety mechanisms — we submit them to inspection.

Request audit access: oversight@redphantomops.com. We will work with qualified auditors, regulators, and institutional partners to verify our claims.

Contact & Partnership Channels

RedPhantomOps LLC
Research • Ethics • AI Safety • Governance

Collaboration Inquiries:
collaborate@redphantomops.com

Funding & Sponsorship:
funding@redphantomops.com

Audit & Oversight:
oversight@redphantomops.com

General Inquiries:
ghostsmith@redphantomops.com

Website:
https://redphantomops.com