John V

Leader, BT6 · 1 appearance on the record.

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Operating under the pseudonym John V, he is an AI red-teaming researcher and leader within BT6, an independent hacker collective stress-testing frontier models. He also co-founded the 40,000-member Bossy Discord and focuses on open-source AI security and radical transparency.

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John V: AI Security Startups Scrape BASI Discord to Build Guardrails
“Multiple organizations that have like popped up in the past, I would say two or three years for, you can call them like AI security startups, right? Like actively scrape that server to build out their guardrails or their security, like their suite of products”
John V Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 28:07 ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Disclosure
John V: BT6 waives open-source stance if needed to test frontier models
“We have an ethos in our hacker collective. Which is radical transparency and radical open source. And what that basically means is if it comes down to, you know, us being an emerging technology is like red team doing like ethical hacking and research and devel…”
John V Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 22:08 ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Dec 16, 2025 9m
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