You don't need a lab coat to fund the future of AI safety.
Most of the AI safety conversation is happening inside the companies that build the models. That is necessary work, but it is not enough. The systems that shape your day, your kid's homework, your patient's care, and your country's policy need to be studied by people who do not work for the people who built them.
Audacion AI Labs is a research lab funded by the people who care about getting AI right, not just the people who profit from getting it fast. We exist because public-interest AI safety research needs public-interest funding. Every donation, at every level, makes the work less dependent on the companies whose products we study.
This is not charity. This is an investment in the safety of every AI system you and your family will ever use.
Every dollar has a job.
More than half of every dollar funds the science directly: the people running the longitudinal studies, the PRISM Fellows doing field work, the analysis that turns observations into published findings.
The observation tools, the dataset infrastructure, the public dashboards, the open-source releases. The technology that makes citizen-science AI safety possible at scale.
Fellowship stipends, contributor support, the PEAQ Summit, the educational programming that brings new observers into the field, including our partnership with BGC.
The lights-on cost of running a lab: legal, accounting, the small team that keeps the work moving.
We will never spend more on operations than on community. The research comes first. Always.
Observer
- ·Public acknowledgement on the contributors page.
- ·Quarterly research digest by email.
- ·Receipt for your records.
Researcher
- ·All of the above.
- ·Early access to new publications, one week before public release.
- ·Annual impact report with the findings your donation made possible.
Fellow
- ·All of the above.
- ·Invitation to two virtual community calls a year with the research team.
- ·Recognition in the PEAQ Summit 2027 proceedings as a supporting donor.
Architect
- ·All of the above.
- ·Reserved seat at PEAQ Summit 2027 with the donor reception.
- ·Direct line to the research team for an annual briefing on the work your gift powered.
Founder's Circle
- ·All of the above.
- ·Named in the lab's founding donor roll, permanently.
- ·Annual in-person dinner with Dee Williams and the senior research team.
- ·Optional advisory role on a research initiative you care about.
Monthly giving is the single most useful thing a donor can do. It gives the lab predictable revenue, which lets us plan multi-year research instead of chasing short-term grants. It is also the most efficient way to reach a higher tier.
A portion of every contribution to Audacion AI Labs supports BGC, the organization formerly known as Black Girls CODE, and their work bringing young women of color into computer science. The future of AI safety depends on who is in the room when these systems are studied. When we build the future of AI safety, we build it for everyone.
The contributors we are training today are the senior researchers who will run the next generation of post-deployment safety work. That pipeline starts long before the lab.
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Audacion AI Labs is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), not a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We chose the PBC structure deliberately. It gives us the agility to do research at the speed the field actually needs, and it locks our public-interest mission into the corporate charter in a way that survives leadership changes.
The trade-off is that under current IRS rules, contributions to a PBC do not qualify as tax-deductible charitable donations. We are working with counsel on a separate 501(c)(3) vehicle that will eventually allow tax-deductible giving, but it does not exist yet.
We chose transparency over convenience. We will never tell you a donation is tax-deductible when it is not.