Brandon Riggs

TLDR; apply to join a 13-week research programme in AI safety running from January 11th - April 9th. You’ll write a technical paper in a team of 3-4 with supervision from an experienced researcher. LASR is built for research output: teams take a project from research question to submitted paper, and recent cohorts have published at NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML workshops. The programme is full-time, in person, in London. About LASR: London AI Safety Research (LASR) Labs is an AI safety research programme focused on reducing the risk of existential risk from advanced AI. We focus on action-relevant questions tackling concrete threat models. LASR participants are matched into teams of 3-4 and work with a supervisor to write an academic-style paper, with support and management from LASR. Unlike programmes structured around individual mentorship or open-ended exploration, every LASR team works toward a concrete research output in the form of an academic paper (preprint, workshop paper, or conference paper). LASR papers have been accepted to top ML venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML workshops. Recent highlights include three NeurIPS 2025 main conference papers, one selected for an oral presentation, and a best paper award at an ICML 2025 workshop. LASR is designed to help you transition into a full-time role in AI safety by giving you a published result and evidence that you can do research. LASR Labs is a good fit for applicants looking to join technical AI safety teams within the next year. 90% of alumni from previous cohorts have gone on to work in AI safety/security, including at UK AISI, Apollo, Geodesic Research, the EU AI Act office, OpenAI's dangerous capabilities evaluations team, and Coefficient Giving. Many have continued working with their supervisors, or are doing AI Safety research in their PhD programmes. Participants will work full-time and in person from the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) co-working space, a hub for researchers from organisa