LifeIP

Guardian AI Lab

Open projects for practical safeguards.

Ethical foresight and security overlap, but they require different tests.

Prompt-injection defenses

Detect and contain instructions smuggled through untrusted content.

Permission enforcement

Keep actions inside delegated authority, regardless of capability.

Uncertainty monitoring

Flag decisions made on weak or stale information.

Omission detection

Notice when needed beneficial action is not taken.

Independent oversight

Separate the system that acts from the one that reviews.

Rollback

Make consequential actions reversible wherever possible.

Safe self-modification

Safeguards for AI-assisted changes to the systems themselves.

Contribution standards

  • Threat models
  • Reproducible benchmarks
  • Failure reports
  • Versioned contributions
  • Explicit licenses