Organisation·Founded 2025·Oxford, United Kingdom
“AI agents drift from human intent over long-horizon tasks. We infer their plans with uncertainty-aware representations to keep humans in the loop.”In its own words: recursive-safeguarding.org
Alignment research

A UK research company studying how AI agents drift from human intent on long tasks, inferring their plans with uncertainty-aware representations to keep humans in the loop.

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Received $725k from 2 funders

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Led by Younesse Kaddar (Director (sole company officer)), Rob Cornish (team member), Sam Staton (team member (Professor)Checked 26 Oct 2026

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2 grants totalling $725k, newest first.

2026 1 grant · $590k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
19 Feb 2026The Alignment Project~$590kAlignment Project round 1 (lead: Kaddar, Younesse): Bayesian Scientist AI for LLM Agent Alignment: GFlowNet-sampled plan abstractions and white-box monitors to mitigate drift and deception. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source
2025 1 grant · $136k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
18 Jul 2025Advanced Research + Invention Agency$136kSafeguarded AI TA2 Phase 1 (grant, 3 months); £106,750 incl. VAT; technical area inferred source