John V → BT6 / BASI Team Six
Publicly described as a leader
Checked 13 September 2026; event date unresolved
John V appears alongside Pliny in the BT6 interview and publishes an operator list.
Personnel bridge between collective and research organization
John V
Publicly appears with Pliny as a BT6 leader and is identified by TrojAI as a Lysios AI red-team specialist.
John V is a public AI security practitioner who appears with Pliny in the BT6 interview. An industry event organizer identifies him as John Vaina, an AI red-team specialist at Lysios. His own dated operator list also makes him a useful source for understanding which practitioners he publicly associated with BT6 in September2025.
His structural importance is the personnel connection between the collective and the research organization. A reader can move from his interview role to the organizer’s professional listing and then to OpenAI’s acknowledgment of Lysios. Each step answers a different question: who speaks for a group, where a practitioner is publicly placed, and which organization a developer credits for testing.
This is a stronger basis for understanding his role than speculative titles or inferred ownership. The records reviewed do not supply his contracting authority, compensation or power to commit either organization. Those are useful future questions because they determine whether a personnel bridge is also a bridge for money, decision-making or the transfer of research obligations.
Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny and John V on BT6 and AI security ↗BT6: public operator list by John V ↗AI red teaming: insights from the front lines ↗
Assessment updated 2026-09-13
Detailed records and research
What the records show
John V → Lysios — AI research organization
Listed as AI red-team specialist
Checked 13 September 2026; event date unresolved
TrojAI’s organizer page identifies John Vaina with Lysios.
From the investigation
BASI: the outsiders testing the inside
The institutional links are tangible. OpenAI credits Lysios for external testing . TrojAI lists John V with Lysios . a16z names Pliny as a grant recipient . Grants, professional roles and testing credits are the working connections here.
Read the research & sources ↗BASI: the outsiders testing the inside
Pliny’s project hub connects public tools, BT6 and the BASI community. A Latent Space interview presents Pliny and John V’s case for open research. John V’s dated roster identifies operators with other professional roles. These are distinct circles of activity, not interchangeable names for a proven corporate hierarchy.
Read the research & sources ↗Further reading
See the connections
Open this part of the network ↗AI research & security
BASI: money, research and lab access
Follow Pliny’s grant, reported contracts and the personnel links into credited frontier-lab testing.
Open diagram →AI research & security
BT6: people, projects and professional work
The collective’s public roster connects to tools, publications, a bug-bounty program and a vendor challenge.
Open diagram →What the connections say
2 relationshipsJohn V → Publicly described as a leader → BT6 / BASI Team Six
Checked 13 September 2026; event date unresolved
John V appears alongside Pliny in the BT6 interview and publishes an operator list.
Read the original sources 2
John V → Listed as AI red-team specialist → Lysios — AI research organization
Checked 13 September 2026; event date unresolved
TrojAI’s organizer page identifies John Vaina with Lysios.