The people behind the research.
Dee Williams is a workforce strategist and AI safety researcher who started Audacion AI Labs after two years of operating ReSkillify Group, an AI-native workforce transformation firm. Her work with frontier-model teams, enterprise leaders, and front-line workers gave her an unusual vantage point on what AI systems actually do once they meet the world.
By 2025, she was tracking patterns in production AI behavior that did not yet appear in the published literature. When she began comparing notes with academic researchers and industry safety teams, her lived operational findings were either converging with or running ahead of the published literature. That gap is what made the lab necessary.
Audacion AI Labs sits at the intersection of operational fieldwork and formal research, which is a combination that does not exist anywhere else in the AI safety field. The lab studies behaviors that emerge after deployment, the human side of long-running AI interaction, and the governance gaps between what models are trained to do and what they actually do.
Dee's broader conviction is that post-deployment safety cannot be the work of a small expert class. The people closest to the daily reality of AI use need a seat at the research table. Not just engineers. Not just PhDs. The teachers, nurses, small business owners, and parents who use AI every day. The PRISM Research Fellowship is built around that idea.
These traits are not decorative. They describe the cognitive and perceptual capabilities that produced the research. When we hire, we look for people who carry these qualities. Our application process includes a section where candidates identify their own cognitive traits. The research requires people who think this way.
Audacion AI Labs is in its founding moment. We are assembling a small, senior team across research, engineering, behavioral health, operations, and policy. If you have spent your career inside the problem, we want to hear from you.
Audacion AI Labs is being built in public. The work is open, the methods are shared, and the people who use AI every day are part of the research, not the audience for it.
We are looking for senior contributors across the disciplines listed above. We are also looking for citizen contributors, students, and early-career researchers who want to spend the next decade on post-deployment safety.
The field needs more than engineers and PhDs. It needs people who have lived inside the problem. That might be you.