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Safety research organisations

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Record	What it is	Place	Links	Confidence
Arcadia ImpactNetworks, bodies, events and media	London non-profit doing AI safety field-building: Safe AI London, London AI Safety Research Labs, student groups and the LEAH office.	London	forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2M4KQWBoNiLpWF · openphilanthropy.org/grants/arcadia-impact-ea-an	verified
ARENASchemes, programmes and AI lines	AI safety mentorship and upskilling programme hosted at LISA's London office.	London	lesswrong.com/posts/P7dbHRYfwykEJiDYX/announcing · safeai.org.uk/	verified
BlueDot ImpactNetworks, bodies, events and media	AI safety organisation based at LISA's London hub, named at LISA's launch and still listed on LISA's site.	London	lesswrong.com/posts/P7dbHRYfwykEJiDYX/announcing · safeai.org.uk/	verified
Glasgow Lab for AI Verification (GLAIVE)Networks, bodies, events and media	Glasgow team (Jade Master, Zans Mihejevs) funded by ARIA Safeguarded AI for categorical programming of composable systems; ARIA marks the project closed. project closed	Glasgow	aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-	one source
LASR Labs (London AI Safety Research Labs)Schemes, programmes and AI lines	London AI safety research programme that runs regular cohorts; hosted at LISA and funded through Arcadia Impact's Open Philanthropy grant.	London	lesswrong.com/posts/P7dbHRYfwykEJiDYX/announcing · openphilanthropy.org/grants/arcadia-impact-ea-an	verified
Leap LabsCompanies	AI safety organisation hosted in LISA's London office when LISA launched in 2024. listed	London	lesswrong.com/posts/P7dbHRYfwykEJiDYX/announcing	one source
Safe AI London (SAIL)Schemes, programmes and AI lines	Arcadia Impact project helping people in London into careers that reduce risks from advanced AI: reading groups, upskilling and outreach.	London	forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2M4KQWBoNiLpWF · openphilanthropy.org/grants/arcadia-impact-ea-an	verified
The Alan Turing Institute (AI assurance and security work)Networks, bodies, events and media · also on Labs, Networks and media	Research institute whose AI work includes the TEA assurance platform, assuring third-party AI for national security, a fairness toolkit and LASR. Profile Owner or parent independent national institute; described by UKTN as "a government-funded, non-profit organisation" Founded or opened 2015 Lab director or lead Professor Mark Girolami — acting CEO (and Chief Scientist) — from Jan 2026 (The Register, 22 Jan 2026). A permanent CEO appointment is a lead, not verified (see Gaps). Other leaders Dr Doug Gurr — Chair; Blythe Crawford — former RAF Air Commodore, commissioned to advise the board on defence and security (Oct 2025); Dr Scott Hosking — Mission Director for Environmental Forecasting (Jul 2026); Chris Burr — Principal Research Scientist (NPL launch panel); Dr Jean Innes — former CEO (stepped down end of 2025) What it does The UK's national institute for data science and AI. After a July 2025 letter from then-Science Secretary Peter Kyle, it narrowed its focus to defence, national security and sovereign capabilities, and closed, spun out or completed 78 research projects. It plans a mission on defending critical national infrastructure, and it co-develops FastNet, an AI weather model, with the Met Office. Research groups or focus defence, national security and sovereign capabilities (Jan 2026); a mission to defend critical national infrastructure such as energy, transport and utilities against cyber attacks; environmental forecasting Notable outputs FastNet — machine-learning weather model co-developed with the Met Office — paper Jul 2026 (record BIZ-LAB-6008) Selected papers FastNet paper (title not stated on the Met Office page) — Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, vol. 5 issue 3 — Jul 2026 — https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/aies/5/3/AIES-D-25-0090.1.xml Funding or budget as published DSIT to guarantee overall funding for one year and national security and defence funding for the following three (no amounts) — 22 Jan 2026 — https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/turing_institute_acting_ceo/ (trade; single source); Meta $1m for a public-sector AI fellowship — 2025 (record BIZ-BIG-020) Partners named Met Office — AI4NWP partnership from 2023, FastNet; Meta — fellowship funding — 2025 Uk government links core funding from DSIT; Peter Kyle's July 2025 letter on refocusing; board adviser on defence and security (Oct 2025) Status now Under acting CEO Mark Girolami since January 2026 and refocused on defence and national security; a permanent CEO appointment appears in search titles but is not verified. Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: one source (trade sources only; turing.ac.uk refused every fetch). Sources computerweekly.com/news/366633598/Alan-Turing-In theregister.com/2026/01/22/turing_institute_acti uktech.news/ai/ceo-of-britains-national-ai-body- uktech.news/ai/alan-turing-institute-appoints-ra metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-c Models and products (2) FastNet (Met Office and Alan Turing Institute) 2026-07-08 in development (not operational)A machine-learning weather model built by the Met Office and the Alan Turing Institute to forecast global weather up to two weeks ahead. Aardvark Weather (end-to-end AI weather prediction) 2025 (Nature vol. 641; Turing blog 20 Mar 2025) research (Nature paper)AI system that goes straight from raw weather observations to forecasts, replacing the traditional forecasting pipeline with one model.		gov.uk/ai-assurance-techniques · gov.uk/government/news/ai-fairness-innovation-ch · metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-sys · turing.ac.uk/	verified
Topos Research UKNetworks, bodies, events and media	Team led by David Jaz Myers, funded by ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme for work on double categorical systems theory. active (project)		aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/trust-everything-	one source