Siddhant Panpatil

AI Safety Researcher @AIM Intelligence

B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur · Maharashtra, India

Hey, I’m Siddhant. I’m 22.

Got into AI back in 2021 when diffusion models started picking up steam. Spent way too many hours tinkering with Stable Diffusion, fine-tuning models, and just seeing what breaks. What started as a hobby turned into an obsession.

Now that my electronics degree is done after 4 years, I’m going full-time into this. Deep dives into model behavior, adversarial attacks, safety research. The stuff that actually interests me.

My work sits at the intersection of adversarial machine learning and AI safety. I believe understanding how systems fail is the first step toward building systems that don’t.

Current Research

Red Teaming LLMs/VLMs

Developing novel jailbreak techniques to expose vulnerabilities in LLMs, Vision-Language Models, and multimodal systems.

Model Behaviour

Studying how models internalize instructions, respond under pressure/conflict and where alignment breaks down.

Interpretability

Relatively new to this—using interpretability tools to build concrete understanding of the red teaming results I uncover.

Agentic Attack Pipelines

Building automated workflows that systematically probe model vulnerabilities at scale.

Guardrail Engineering

Generating safety datasets and stress-testing guardrails to make them more robust against adversarial inputs.

Robotics Safety

Extending my knowledge toward embodied AI safety and understanding failure modes in robotic systems.

Why I Do This

I’m not afraid of superintelligence. I’m not afraid to live in a world among superintelligent systems. What I fear is a world where a small group controls that intelligence and I have no access to it.

This is why I believe in open-source research and transparent safety work.

Outside of Work

Badminton

Doubles, competitive rallies, the usual.

Manhwa & Novels

Murim over everything. Demonic cults, unorthodox factions, martial arts politics. Regression if the plot earns it.

Lost Media

Digging through old forums and archives for things the internet forgot.

Photography & Editing

Street shots, tropical light, and way too much time in Lightroom.