red teamer

noun

A member of a red team.

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Meanings

nounred teamer (plural red teamers)

plural red teamers

  1. A member of a red team.

    Before releasing it, OpenAI hired some “expert red teamers,” whose job was to see how much mischief the model might do, before it became public.

    2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45

Origin

From red team + -er.

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APA

red teamer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20teamer

MLA

“red teamer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20teamer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red teamer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red%20teamer.

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