Alignment researcher Turn Trout joins Farai to tailor sandboxing for agentic evals
Turn_Trout · x · 2026-09-04
Well-known alignment researcher Alex Turner (Turn Trout) announced he's joining @farairesearch as a visiting engineer, talking with alignment orgs to scope their needs for agentic evals sandboxing, aiming to tailor glovebox development accordingly. A signal that agent-eval safety infrastructure is becoming a hands-on engineering focus in alignment work.
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