Mick Yang

Member of Technical Staff

FAR.AI

Mick is a Technical Policy Researcher with the Red Team where he connects adversarial testing with durable policy outcomes and measurable safeguards. Before joining FAR.AI, he completed a Master's in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania on a full scholarship and earned a Bachelor’s in Law from Oxford University with a Double First. His previous AI safety research spans threat modeling, model evaluations, and governance research of frontier AI risks (with MATS, GovAI, ARENA), and he worked in technology strategy and management consulting at BCG.

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Persuasion Undermining Control: Can AI Talk its Way Out of Human Control?

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Anthropic’s Mythos 5 recently grabbed headlines for trying to talk an open-source repo maintainer into merging malicious code. In this paper, we systematically study the broader threat of how AI persuasion could undermine human control, particularly at frontier AI labs.

September 17, 2026
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