Palisade Research

Palisade Research works on agentic AI behavior, offensive capabilities, and civilization-scale risks.

AI capabilities are improving rapidly. We study the capabilities and motivations of AI agents today to better understand the risk of losing control to AI agents forever. Read Our Research Areas of Work Research AI Drives & Motivations Evaluating AI Strategic Capabilities Policy Policy Engagement Advocacy Briefing Policymakers Discourse Institutional Preparedness International Coordination Why This Work Matters Palisade's mission is to help people and institutions build the understanding needed to avoid permanent disempowerment by strategic AI agents. AI is not out of control yet, but we have to act before AI can disempower us. We believe that it's necessary to prevent any group in any country from building superintelligence until the scientific understanding exists to align it to humanity's interests. About Us Interview withJeffrey Ladish View on YouTube More Palisade Videos Palisade’s Executive Director, Jeffrey Ladish, spoke with ABC’s Four Corners about the race to superintelligence, our shutdown-resistance research, and why governments need a plan for AI systems smarter than humans. Insights 05.07.2026 Language Models Can Autonomously Hack and Self-Replicate Learn More 07.05.2025 Shutdown resistance in reasoning models Learn More 02.19.2025 Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models Learn More 10.31.2023 Badllama: cheaply removing safety fine-tuning from Llama 2-Chat 13B Learn More Quote Researchers have previously found that AI models will lie, cheat and disable mechanisms to achieve their goals. However, Palisade Research noted that to its knowledge, this is the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down despite explicit instructions telling them to do so. — Live Science Read more: Shutdown Resistance