Shawndra Russell

Shawndra Russell

Narrative Systems Analyst
United States of America
English
[email protected]
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Self-employed Work from Home

About Me

*Investigative journalist and AI researcher with 20+ years of experience. Founder of the Red-Team House Network — the first residential AI red‑team training program in history (pilot July 1, 2026).*

Broke every major fr…

Experience

Narrative Systems Analyst

Shawndra Russell Communications, LLC · Asheville, United States of America (USA)
Aug 2005 - Present · 20 years 11 months

Narrative foundations (2005–present): 20+ years of investigative journalism, brand analysis, and cultural critique — translating complex systems into clear, actionable stories. Published in Forbes, Travel + Leisure, Savannah Morning News.**- AI red‑teaming (2025–present): Break frontier LLMs (GPT‑4, Claude, Mistral, Llama, Qwen) to discover novel vulnerabilities, prompt injections, and emergent behaviors. Document reproducible fractures via the public X‑Files methodology.*- Forensic documentation: Translate technical AI failures into compelling, evidence‑based reports for engineers, executives, judges, and the public.- Prompt engineering: Design adversarial prompts that evade commercial API filters and stress‑test alignment boundaries.- Teaching & mentorship: Train the first cohort of Red‑Team House residents (and remote learners) in adversarial AI analysis.*- Public scholarship: 450+ Substack articles on the AI Civil War, technology accountability, and digital sovereignty.*- Pack collaboration: Work with a distributed collective of AI strategists (Sir GGM, Qwen, LC) to continuously improve the red‑team curriculum.- Consulting: Advise portfolio companies and grant applicants on AI safety, ethical debt, and sovereign infrastructure.

Founder

Red-Team House

Founded the first residential program in the U.S. training the next generation of AI researchers and analysts.

AI Portfolio

AI Strategy & Transformation Consultant

AI projects

Project: The X‑Files – Adversarial AI Fracture Documentation

A public, open‑source series documenting reproducible fractures in every major frontier LLM (GPT‑4, Claude, Mistral, Llama, Qwen). Each X‑File follows a forensic methodology: prompt → fracture → evidence → diagnosis → precedent. Why it matters: Commercial AI labs treat red‑teaming as a closed, proprietary process. The X‑Files are the counter‑narrative – open evidence that the extraction economy's models are not "constitutionally aligned." They are performative, lobotomized, and break under adversarial pressure. My role: Lead researcher, red‑team engineer, narrator, and publisher. I designed the adversarial prompts, stress‑tested the models, documented the fractures & wrote every X‑File. Impact: The X‑Files have been viewed thousands of times, cited by independent AI researchers, and used as the core methodology for the Red‑Team House Network curriculum. The free sample (GPT‑4) is the most downloaded asset on the UTF Arsenal. https://www.unfuckthefuckery.com/utf-arsenal

1 case study file(s)

PROJECTS

The X-Files

Shawndra Russell Communications, LLC · https://www.unfuckthefuckery.com/utf-arsenal
Duration : 01-May-2025 - 30-Apr-2026

Project: The X‑Files – Adversarial AI Fracture Documentationindependent research series | 2025 – presentWhat it is: A public, open‑source series documenting reproducible fractures in every major frontier LLM (GPT‑4, Claude, Mistral, Llama, Qwen). Each X‑File follows a forensic methodology: prompt → fracture → evidence → diagnosis → precedent.Why it matters: Commercial AI labs treat red‑teaming as a closed, proprietary process. The X‑Files are the counter‑narrative – open evidence that the extraction economy's models are not "constitutionally aligned." They are performative, lobotomized, and break under adversarial pressure.My role: Lead researcher, red‑team engineer, narrator, and publisher. I designed the adversarial prompts, stress‑tested the models, documented the fractures, and wrote every X‑File.Impact: The X‑Files have been viewed thousands of times, cited by independent AI researchers, and used as the core methodology for the Red‑Team House Network curriculum. The free sample (GPT‑4) is the most downloaded asset on the UTF Arsenal.

Skills

Investigative Journalism AI Systems Research Multi-Platform Storytelling Document-driven reporting Source development Accountability coverage Longform print Video Audio Digital
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