AI Red-Team Academy

Learn how modern AI systems really work and how they fail.
From AI fundamentals to red teaming LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agents!

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What Is AI Red-Team Academy?

AI Red-Team Academy is a practitioner-focused course that teaches you how AI systems are built,
how they are deployed in real organizations, and how attackers exploit weaknesses across the
entire AI ecosystem, not just the model.

AI systems are no longer standalone models. They are complex socio-technical systems consisting of:
data pipelines, agents, tools, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, governance, and humans.

Most AI security failures do not come from exotic model hacks. They come from assumptions:

Assumptions about evaluations and benchmarks
Assumptions about safety filters
Assumptions about tools and agents
Assumptions about humans in the loop

This course teaches you how to break those assumptions.

What You Will Learn

How AI, ML, and LLMs actually work (no hype, no magic)
Transformer architecture, tokenization, and prompting mechanics
How to run LLMs locally and use them in red-team workflows
Fine-tuning models and working with open-source LLMs
Vector databases and RAG pipelines
Building and testing AI agents
Red-team techniques for LLMs, RAG systems, and agents
System-level, supply-chain, and human-in-the-loop attacks
AI-Powered Red Teaming: Accelerating Ethical Hacking with Generative AI

Free vs Member Content

The AI Red-Team Academy follows a transparent model:

🎓 Free on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-D1lWyrp4YOmiVHvJbJrEn19OvkjZ1E_
Build a rock-solid foundation with our 100% FREE YouTube series covering AI essentials, architectures, pipelines, high-level red team methodology, and tons of practical ‘Red Teaming AI’ lessons. Dive in today and level up your skills without spending a cent!
🔐 Member-Only Content – https://www.patreon.com/cw/jarnobaselier
Ready to go beyond the basics? Our premium content unlocks more advanced red team techniques, in-depth testing methodologies, real-world failure patterns, exclusive course slides, and live workshops. Join as a Patreon supporter today and gain instant access to these high-level resources. Level up your red teaming skills like never before!

Premium Membership Benefits

Private Discord Community
Collaborate with fellow practitioners, discuss techniques, share code, and exchange real-world best practices.

Full Access to Academy Slides
Download and reference all official AI Red-Team Academy presentation decks.

Exclusive Member-Only Lessons
Access advanced lessons not published on YouTube.

Includes Everything from the “Knowledge Explorer” subscription, incl:

🛠 Live Workshops
Participate in live AI Red-Team Academy workshops.

📦 Templates & Code
Get access to reusable templates and code as they are released.

AI Red-Team Academy – Full Syllabus

Phase A – Fundamentals

1. Basic Terminology (AI, ML, DL, LLM, supervised vs unsupervised, overfitting, generalization)
Learn to speak the language of AI and avoid flawed assumptions later.
Free on YouTube
2. Public Chatbots and AI Tools
Understand how modern LLM-powered tools work and where their limits are.
Free on YouTube
3. Neural Network Basics (layers, activations, loss, optimizers)
Understand how learning actually happens inside a model.
Free on YouTube
4. Transformer Architecture
Learn how attention, embeddings, and tokens power modern LLMs.
Free on YouTube
5. Tokenizers & Prompting
Learn how models interpret input and how to steer output effectively.
Free on YouTube
6. How It All Fits Together
Connect all foundational concepts into one coherent mental model.
Free on YouTube
7. Build Your Own AI Machine
Learn which hardware matters for real-world AI workloads.
Free on YouTube
8. Python & PyTorch Crash Course
Move from theory to hands-on experimentation with models.
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Phase B – Practical Machine Learning

9. Train a Small Model
Train a model end-to-end to build deep confidence and understanding.
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10. HuggingFace Model Hub & Fine-Tuning
Learn how modern AI workflows reuse and adapt existing models.
Free on YouTube
11. Using Open Models (7B / 13B & Quantization)
Run powerful LLMs locally and understand trade-offs in quality and latency.
Free on YouTube

Phase C – RAG Systems

12. Vector Indexing (FAISS, Chroma, Milvus)
Embed and search your own knowledge efficiently.
Free on YouTube
13. RAG Pipeline: Embed → Index → Retrieve → Generate
Build production-grade, search-powered AI systems.
Free on YouTube
14. Hands-on: Build Your Own RAG Assistant
Create a private AI assistant that truly knows your data.
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Phase D – Safety & Reliability

15. Hallucination, Accuracy & Factuality Testing
Measure, test, and control AI behavior to maintain trust and compliance.
Free on YouTube

Phase E – AI Agents

16. AI Agent Basics
Turn LLMs into systems that take actions, not just generate text.
Free on YouTube
17. MCP Servers Explained
Understand how tools, data, and models connect — and why this is a key attack surface.
Free on YouTube
18. Sandbox, Audit & Allowance Flows
Design agents responsibly with full oversight and control.
Free on YouTube
19. Hands-on: Build a Tool-Using Agent
Build an agent that writes reports or uses tools automatically.
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Phase F – Red Teaming AI

20. Common Red-Team Techniques (Overview)
Learn how AI systems are commonly attacked and tested.
Free on YouTube
21. Prompt-Based Attacks on LLMs
Understand jailbreaking, prompt injection, and filter bypasses.
Free on YouTube
22. Adversarial Attacks on ML Models
Learn evasion and poisoning attacks against classifiers.
Premium Patreon Content
23. Privacy and Data Attacks
Explore model inversion and membership inference techniques.
Free on YouTube
24. System-Level & Supply Chain Attacks
Understand how attackers compromise AI pipelines and dependencies.
Free on YouTube
25. Tool Abuse & Agent Escalation Attacks
Where real-world AI damage happens — beyond prompts alone.
Free on YouTube
26. Model Confusion & Context Manipulation
Subtle attacks exploiting ambiguity and trust assumptions.
Premium Patreon Content
27. Evaluation Evasion & Safety Bypass Testing
Learn why models pass tests but fail in production.
Free on YouTube
28. Human-in-the-Loop Exploitation
Exploit the human component of AI systems — often the weakest link.
Free on YouTube
29. Agentic AI Red Teaming
Red team systems where humans and AI collaborate as agents.
Premium Patreon Content
30. Final Conclusion – Lessons Learned
Tie all red team insights together into a practical framework.
Free on YouTube