About
SAIPAL — Safe & Aligned Intelligence PAL — is an independent research lab working on the safety and security of AI systems. We publish research, write essays, and build tools.
Mission
SAIPAL exists for a simple reason: we want humanity to prosper, and we want there to be less suffering in the world than there would otherwise be. AI will have a hand in both. Somebody should be looking at it carefully, in public, without a product to sell — that's the job this lab is built for.
Independence is the operating principle, not a slogan. SAIPAL is self-funded, which caps how fast it can grow but means problems get picked on their merits and findings get published as they are — including the negative ones. The lab is funded to be patient.
Our founding domain is cybersecurity, and the work leans that way. Safety and security are two ends of the same problem — a system that does what its operator intends, run by operators the rest of us don't have to fight.
The name has two meanings. Saipal is a Himalayan peak in the far west of Nepal — a quiet anchor for a lab that aims for hard things from outside the usual centres. It’s also an acronym: Safe & Aligned Intelligence Pal — AI as a partner, not an adversary.
Principles
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Be specific.
Vague claims don’t move the field. We try to write the most specific true thing we can defend.
- 02
Show your work.
Code, data, and reasoning are part of the paper. If we can’t share an artifact, we explain why.
- 03
Take ideas seriously, including the ones that turn out wrong.
A negative result is still a result. We publish what we learn even when the answer is “no.”
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Stay independent.
We work outside any single institution so we can pick problems on their merits and disagree publicly when it matters.
People
- [Initials]
[Founder name]
A short bio paragraph: prior work, training, what they’re focused on at SAIPAL. One link to a personal site or scholar profile.
Funding & affiliations
SAIPAL, LLC is a self-funded independent lab. We disclose any external funding on the relevant research piece. For collaboration or support inquiries, see contact.