Research that leaves the lab

Blackwall runs independent capability evaluations on frontier AI systems before they are deployed. Participating labs grant our evaluators structured access to unreleased models; we probe for dangerous capabilities, deceptive behavior and failures of containment, then publish what we find.

Participation is voluntary, but publication is not negotiable. Every evaluation ends in a public report, including the findings a lab would rather keep quiet. Our test suites are open source so that anyone can reproduce our results — or improve on them.

The Turing Registry is a public, auditable record of autonomous systems operating in the world. Each filing names the system, the organization responsible for it, the domain it is licensed to act in, and the human contact who answers when something goes wrong.

Registration is free and voluntary in most places; forty-one jurisdictions now recognize a Registry license in law. When a system exceeds its license we investigate in public, and when the evidence warrants it, we revoke.

Glossia is an open, end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol built for people who cannot afford to be overheard: reporters protecting sources, organizers under surveillance and families separated by hostile borders.

It is designed for the worst conditions first — low bandwidth, intermittent networks and devices that may be seized. The specification is public, the reference clients are free and the protocol is independently audited every year.

Lazarus recovers the software, archives and digital lives that would otherwise be lost to bit rot, dead formats and shuttered services. We image failing media, build emulators for forgotten machines and negotiate the rights to keep orphaned works available.

What began in 1994 as a handful of volunteers rescuing floppy disks is now one of the largest verified digital archives in the world — and every item in it is free to access.

Scramble builds identity-shielding tools that render journalists, organizers and other people at risk a blur to facial recognition, gait analysis and behavioral tracking.

Every tool is designed with the people who use it, tested against the systems deployed against them and released as open source. Our field team trains newsrooms and community groups in thirty-eight countries.

LoTek builds low-cost, community-owned mesh networks for the neighborhoods the market decided were not worth wiring. We provide open hardware, installation training and legal support; residents own and govern the network.

The first LoTek network went live on a single block in Newark in 2008. Today sixty-four communities run their own — with no subscription fees, no data caps and no one selling their traffic.