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What We Study

Research

Our work spans the technical, strategic, and governance dimensions of AI safety. Active research concentrates in three areas:

Security

Studying the attack surface of advanced AI systems — including model weights, training pipelines, deployment infrastructure, and the information-security posture of frontier labs. Check out our Security Guide.

Strategy & Forecasting

Mapping AI development trajectories, identifying high-leverage interventions, and analyzing how transformative AI will reshape institutions, economies, and global risk.

Policy & Governance

Examining regulatory frameworks, compliance and verification mechanisms, compute governance, and the international coordination challenges posed by frontier AI development.

Publications & Working Papers

Other areas we actively engage with include:

  • Agent foundations and decision theory
  • Control protocols and runtime monitoring of AI systems
  • Mechanistic and concept-level interpretability
  • Capability evaluations and benchmarking
  • Adversarial robustness and deployment safeguards
  • Game-theoretic modeling and threat assessment
  • Hardware interventions and compute proliferation dynamics
  • Model organisms, red-teaming, and deceptive alignment