{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/uk-aisi-controlarena-2025/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "uk-aisi-controlarena-2025",
 "date": "2025-10-22",
 "datePrecision": "day",
 "title": "UK AISI and Redwood release ControlArena library for AI control experiments",
 "lane": "defense",
 "kind": "tool-release",
 "summary": "The UK AI Security Institute, with Redwood Research, releases ControlArena, an open-source library built on Inspect for running AI control experiments. It bundles settings from simple programming problems to infrastructure-as-code codebases, attack policies, monitors and protocols such as trusted editing and defer-to-trusted, and AISI says researchers at Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Redwood have used it.",
 "whyItMatters": "It standardizes testbeds for measuring whether monitors and protocols stop an agent pursuing covert harmful side tasks.",
 "actors": [
  "uk-aisi",
  "redwood-research"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "monitoring-and-control"
 ],
 "atlas": [
  "monitor",
  "eval-environment",
  "sandbox"
 ],
 "artifacts": [
  "controlarena",
  "inspect"
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/introducing-controlarena-a-library-for-running-ai-control-experiments",
   "publisher": "UK AI Security Institute",
   "title": "Introducing ControlArena: A library for running AI control experiments",
   "date": "2025-10-22",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/control-arena",
   "publisher": "GitHub",
   "title": "UKGovernmentBEIS/control-arena",
   "date": "2025-10-22",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "Includes monitors that score suspicion, trusted editing, defer-to-trusted micro-protocols and macro-protocols across tasks.",
   "locator": "Blog, protocols section"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 3,
 "fideQuestions": [
  "FID-074"
 ],
 "methods": [
  "ai-monitoring"
 ],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}