UK BUSINESS AI UNIVERSE: Safety: Alignment research

Alignment research

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Record	What it is	Place	Links	Confidence
Aligned AICompanies	Researches ways to make AI systems behave safely in situations they were not trained for.	Thame, Oxfordshire (OX9 3EZ)	Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	one source
ConjectureCompanies · also on Labs	London AI research company building large language models and a new AI design meant to keep advanced AI controllable and auditable. Profile Founded March 2022 Founders Connor Leahy — co-founder; Sid Black — co-founder; Gabriel Alfour — co-founder (titles not given on the fetched pages) Hq London (England: London); other_offices: null Headcount 20 — 15 February 2024 — https://www.conjecture.dev/research/conjecture-2-years What it does A London AI safety company that grew out of the open-source group EleutherAI. It started as an alignment research start-up and now describes its work as building large language models and "Cognitive Emulation" systems, meant to be bounded, controllable and auditable. Research focus AI control; Cognitive Emulation (CoEm); alignment; interpretability (e.g. "Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens") Models and products LLM suite and Cognitive Emulation approach — as stated on About page, date null Customers or partners named null ("first enterprise customers" mentioned, unnamed, February 2024) Papers and awards research posts on conjecture.dev (e.g. "Cognitive Emulation: A Naive AI Safety Proposal") — dates not checked Rounds found 2022-04-08 (announcement) — seed-stage (stage not stated) — amount not stated — lead not stated — Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collison, Arthur Breitman, Andrej Karpathy, Sam Bankman-Fried "among others" (NEW: DEAL-LAB-9014) Status now Website live with a London job listing; no 2025–26 news was found in this round. Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: single_source (all company pages; no 2025–26 news found). Sources conjecture.dev/about conjecture.dev/research/we-are-conjecture-a-new- conjecture.dev/research/conjecture-2-years	Borough High Street, London (SE1 1JA)	Companies House · conjecture.dev/about · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · conjecture.dev/research/we-are-conjecture-a-new-	verified