Research Blog

Insights, breakthroughs, and updates from TerraNova MU's 8 specialized research labs

Adversarial AI: The Arms Race of 2025

Exploring the escalating competition between adversarial attack development and defense mechanisms. Our Adversarial AI Lab analyzes recent breakthroughs in jailbreak attempts against GPT-4 variants and discusses countermeasures now being deployed.

Byzantine Consensus in Large Language Models

How distributed consensus protocols are being adapted for collaborative AI training. The Byzantine Fault Tolerance Lab reveals new approaches to achieving agreement in decentralized LLM training across multiple nodes with Byzantine failures.

Ethics of Autonomous Drone Governance

Establishing ethical frameworks for autonomous weapons systems. The Autonomous Systems Ethics Lab addresses the critical question of meaningful human control and proposes governance structures that balance operational effectiveness with ethical oversight.

Post-Quantum Threats to Military AI

Assessing the impact of quantum computing on military AI systems. Our Quantum-AI Security Lab details timeline projections for quantum computer deployment and the cryptographic vulnerabilities affecting defense infrastructure.

LLM Safety: Beyond RLHF

Advanced techniques for ensuring language model safety beyond standard RLHF approaches. The Natural Language Governance Lab explores constitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability, and multi-layered safety architectures for next-generation models.

Facial Recognition Governance: Global Standards

Developing international standards for facial recognition deployment. The Computer Vision Ethics Lab proposes governance frameworks addressing bias, accuracy thresholds, and national security considerations across allied nations.

Federated Learning in Defence Applications

Privacy-preserving distributed learning for classified environments. The Federated Learning Privacy Lab demonstrates how federated learning enables collaborative AI training across military departments without exposing sensitive data.

Explainable AI for Military Decision Support

Making AI recommendations transparent for defense command. The Explainable AI Lab presents techniques for generating human-understandable explanations in real-time decision support systems for military operations.

Our Partnership with Anthropic's Safety Team

Announcing a collaboration to advance AI safety research. TerraNova MU partners with Anthropic to jointly develop governance frameworks and safety techniques for frontier AI systems used in defense and government sectors.

Research Roundup: Q1 2024 Publications

Highlights from our first quarter 2024 publications. We published 34 peer-reviewed papers across top venues including USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, and ACL, covering AI governance, cryptography, and autonomous systems ethics.

The Future of AI Governance Education

Shaping the next generation of AI governance professionals. TerraNova MU launches an expanded certification program in partnership with leading universities, offering online and in-person training in AI governance, policy, and security.

Interview: Prof. Martinez on Byzantine AI

Deep dive with our Byzantine Fault Tolerance Lab director. In this exclusive interview, Prof. Dr. Elena Martinez discusses her research on consensus mechanisms resilient to Byzantine failures and their applications in distributed AI systems.