{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2026-09-18",
  "topics": [
    {
      "id": "autonomous-attackers",
      "label": "Autonomous cyber attackers",
      "short": "Attackers",
      "path": "/autonomous-attackers/",
      "description": "AI agents and multi-agent systems used for offensive cyber operations, the benchmarks that measure them, and the defensive research responding to it."
    },
    {
      "id": "cyber-deception",
      "label": "Cyber deception",
      "short": "Deception",
      "path": "/cyber-deception/",
      "description": "Honeypots, honeytokens, decoys, denial-and-deception doctrine, and the empirical work measuring whether any of it changes attacker behaviour."
    },
    {
      "id": "quantum-cognition",
      "label": "Quantum cognition",
      "short": "Quantum cognition",
      "path": "/quantum-cognition/",
      "description": "Quantum probability theory as a model of human judgment and decision making, including the critical literature arguing that it fails."
    }
  ],
  "subtopics": [
    {
      "id": "agentic-exploitation",
      "label": "Agentic exploitation",
      "description": "Agents carrying an exploit chain end to end against real or reproduced targets."
    },
    {
      "id": "vulnerability-discovery",
      "label": "Vulnerability discovery",
      "description": "Models and agents finding flaws in code rather than exploiting known ones."
    },
    {
      "id": "autonomous-pentesting",
      "label": "Autonomous penetration testing",
      "description": "Systems that run an engagement with little or no human steering."
    },
    {
      "id": "multi-agent-orchestration",
      "label": "Multi-agent orchestration",
      "description": "Several coordinated agents running phases of an operation together."
    },
    {
      "id": "cyber-reasoning-systems",
      "label": "Cyber reasoning systems",
      "description": "Automated find-patch-exploit systems, from the Cyber Grand Challenge onward."
    },
    {
      "id": "competitions",
      "label": "Competitions",
      "description": "Funded contests that produced public artefacts and comparable results."
    },
    {
      "id": "benchmarks",
      "label": "Benchmarks",
      "description": "Task suites built to measure offensive or defensive capability reproducibly."
    },
    {
      "id": "capability-evaluation",
      "label": "Capability evaluation",
      "description": "Methodology for eliciting and measuring what a model can actually do."
    },
    {
      "id": "simulation-environments",
      "label": "Simulation environments",
      "description": "Synthetic networks for training and studying automated agents."
    },
    {
      "id": "prompt-injection",
      "label": "Prompt injection and agent hijacking",
      "description": "Turning an agent's inputs against it, as both an attack and a defence."
    },
    {
      "id": "defensive-agents",
      "label": "Defensive agents",
      "description": "Agents that patch, triage or defend rather than attack."
    },
    {
      "id": "threat-reporting",
      "label": "Threat reporting",
      "description": "Vendor and government reporting on observed misuse of AI systems."
    },
    {
      "id": "social-engineering",
      "label": "Social engineering at scale",
      "description": "Model-generated phishing and pretexting, and the evidence about its effectiveness."
    },
    {
      "id": "governance-policy",
      "label": "Governance and policy",
      "description": "National guidance, standards and policy on AI-enabled cyber threat."
    },
    {
      "id": "tooling",
      "label": "Tooling",
      "description": "Scanners, harnesses and utilities for testing AI systems."
    },
    {
      "id": "honeypots",
      "label": "Honeypots and honeynets",
      "description": "Decoy systems built to be attacked and observed."
    },
    {
      "id": "honeytokens",
      "label": "Honeytokens",
      "description": "Planted credentials, files and records that alert when touched."
    },
    {
      "id": "llm-honeypots",
      "label": "LLM-backed honeypots",
      "description": "Decoys whose responses are generated by a language model rather than scripted."
    },
    {
      "id": "deception-vs-agents",
      "label": "Deception against machine attackers",
      "description": "Deception designed for automated adversaries rather than human ones."
    },
    {
      "id": "counter-deception",
      "label": "Counter-deception",
      "description": "Detecting, fingerprinting and evading deception from the attacker's side."
    },
    {
      "id": "empirical-efficacy",
      "label": "Empirical efficacy",
      "description": "Experiments and trials measuring whether deception imposes real cost."
    },
    {
      "id": "adversary-cognition",
      "label": "Adversary cognition",
      "description": "Modelling attacker psychology, bias and decision making under deception."
    },
    {
      "id": "denial-and-deception-theory",
      "label": "Denial and deception theory",
      "description": "The pre-cyber literature on deception that the field keeps reimporting."
    },
    {
      "id": "frameworks-doctrine",
      "label": "Frameworks and doctrine",
      "description": "Structured references for planning and running deception programmes."
    },
    {
      "id": "moving-target-defense",
      "label": "Moving target defense",
      "description": "Changing the attack surface over time; adjacent discipline to deception."
    },
    {
      "id": "ics-ot",
      "label": "ICS and OT",
      "description": "Deception in industrial control and operational technology environments."
    },
    {
      "id": "deployment",
      "label": "Deployment",
      "description": "Getting deception running and monitored in a real environment."
    },
    {
      "id": "detection",
      "label": "Detection",
      "description": "Deception used to generate high-confidence alerts."
    },
    {
      "id": "datasets",
      "label": "Datasets",
      "description": "Captured attack data released for reuse."
    },
    {
      "id": "communities",
      "label": "Communities",
      "description": "Organisations and groups that sustain the work."
    },
    {
      "id": "funding-programs",
      "label": "Funding programmes",
      "description": "Government research programmes shaping the agenda."
    },
    {
      "id": "foundations",
      "label": "Foundations",
      "description": "The works everything else in the area cites."
    },
    {
      "id": "quantum-probability",
      "label": "Quantum probability",
      "description": "The formal apparatus: Hilbert spaces, incompatible measurements, interference."
    },
    {
      "id": "order-effects",
      "label": "Order effects",
      "description": "Question-order and sequence phenomena, and the QQ equality that predicts them."
    },
    {
      "id": "concept-combination",
      "label": "Concept combination",
      "description": "Conjunction and disjunction effects in how people combine concepts."
    },
    {
      "id": "computational-models",
      "label": "Computational models",
      "description": "Implementable quantum-like models and their comparison to classical ones."
    },
    {
      "id": "critiques",
      "label": "Critiques",
      "description": "Arguments that quantum models overfit, fail to replicate, or explain nothing new."
    },
    {
      "id": "trust-and-deception",
      "label": "Trust and deception",
      "description": "Quantum-like treatments of trust, credibility and adversarial judgment."
    },
    {
      "id": "machine-belief-states",
      "label": "Machine belief states",
      "description": "Applying human-cognition models and bias inventories to model behaviour."
    },
    {
      "id": "tutorials",
      "label": "Tutorials",
      "description": "Step-by-step introductions to the formalism."
    },
    {
      "id": "surveys-taxonomies",
      "label": "Surveys and taxonomies",
      "description": "The fastest way into a literature."
    },
    {
      "id": "trackers",
      "label": "Ongoing trackers",
      "description": "Sources that keep publishing on the topic."
    },
    {
      "id": "courses",
      "label": "Courses",
      "description": "Structured teaching material."
    },
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      "id": "venues",
      "label": "Venues",
      "description": "Where this work is published and presented."
    },
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      "id": "labs-groups",
      "label": "Labs and groups",
      "description": "Institutional homes for the research."
    },
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      "label": "People",
      "description": "Researchers with substantial public bodies of work."
    }
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      "label": "Paper",
      "description": "A primary research article or preprint."
    },
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      "description": "A survey, systematization of knowledge, or taxonomy."
    },
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      "description": "A monograph, textbook, or edited volume."
    },
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      "description": "A standards-body or government publication."
    },
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      "description": "A structured reference model intended for operational use."
    },
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      "id": "dataset",
      "label": "Dataset",
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    },
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      "description": "Software with a public repository."
    },
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      "label": "Course",
      "description": "Teaching material or a tutorial."
    },
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    },
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      "id": "newsletter",
      "label": "Newsletter",
      "description": "A recurring publication, usually with a feed."
    },
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      "id": "report",
      "label": "Report",
      "description": "Vendor or government reporting."
    },
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      "description": "A research programme, lab, or funded initiative."
    },
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      "label": "Person",
      "description": "A researcher's institutional or scholarly page."
    },
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      "label": "Venue",
      "description": "A conference, workshop, or journal."
    }
  ],
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      "id": "entry",
      "label": "Entry",
      "description": "Readable with no prior exposure to the area."
    },
    {
      "id": "intermediate",
      "label": "Intermediate",
      "description": "Assumes the vocabulary of the field."
    },
    {
      "id": "advanced",
      "label": "Advanced",
      "description": "Assumes the formal background, and often the prior papers."
    }
  ],
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      "id": "open",
      "label": "Open",
      "description": "Freely readable with no account."
    },
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      "id": "free-registration",
      "label": "Free registration",
      "description": "Free, but asks for an account or details."
    },
    {
      "id": "paywalled",
      "label": "Paywalled",
      "description": "Requires payment or an institutional subscription."
    }
  ],
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      "id": "html",
      "label": "HTML",
      "description": "A web page."
    },
    {
      "id": "pdf",
      "label": "PDF",
      "description": "A PDF document."
    },
    {
      "id": "video",
      "label": "Video",
      "description": "Recorded video."
    },
    {
      "id": "code",
      "label": "Code",
      "description": "A source repository."
    },
    {
      "id": "dataset",
      "label": "Dataset",
      "description": "Downloadable data."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "preprint",
      "label": "preprint",
      "description": "Not peer reviewed at the time of checking."
    },
    {
      "id": "vendor-authored",
      "label": "vendor-authored",
      "description": "Written by a company with a commercial interest in the subject."
    },
    {
      "id": "dated",
      "label": "dated",
      "description": "Still useful, but the technical detail has moved on."
    },
    {
      "id": "contested",
      "label": "contested",
      "description": "Disputed, unreplicated, or widely over-read."
    },
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      "label": "seminal",
      "description": "The work later work is built on."
    },
    {
      "id": "paywalled",
      "label": "paywalled",
      "description": "Not freely readable."
    },
    {
      "id": "living",
      "label": "living",
      "description": "Continuously updated, with no single publication year. Sorting by year will not place it meaningfully."
    }
  ]
}