Recursive Safeguarding

Aligning Long-Horizon AI Agents

AI agents drift from human intent over long-horizon tasks. We infer their plans with uncertainty-aware representations to keep humans in the loop.

Funders

Previous funding

Funded by ARIA, the UK's high-risk, high-reward research agency.

2025, under the Safeguarded AI programme.

Current funding

Funded by the UK AI Security Institute.

Through its Alignment Project.

Our Team

Younesse Kaddar

Director of Recursive Safeguarding Ltd

Oxford Univ ARIA SGAI TA1 & Opportunity Seed

Finishing DPhil at Oxford; formerly at Mila (worked with Yoshua Bengio)

Worked on LLM hallucinations at Cohere

Technical Cofounder and CTO of RightPick

Rob Cornish

Nanyang Asst Professor & NRF-AI Fellow, NTU Singapore

Cofounder and Director of Quro Medical

Formerly Oxford Univ Nightingale Fellow

Machine Learning Researcher (computational statistics, deep generative modeling, causal inference)

Sam Staton

Oxford Univ Professor

ARIA SGAI TA1 grants & Opportunity Seed (SynthStats: GFlowNet-finetuning)

ERC Consolidator Grant BLAST: Better Languages for Statistics

Pedro Amorim

Faculty at Bath Univ

Expert in programming language theory

Expert in formal verification and categorical semantics

Nikolaj Jensen

Oxford Univ PhD student in AI and theory

ARIA SGAI TA1 via Adjoint Labs Ltd

Jacek Karwowski

Oxford Univ PhD student in AI and theory

SERI MATS scholar and OpenPhil funded

Published work on probabilistic programming and RL safety

MM

Independent researcher and entrepreneur

Anthropic collaborator (Exa-scale Safeguards)

Formerly Mila: Scientist AI with Yoshua Bengio

Co-founded Alignment at TII (Falcon, the #1 LLM)

Previous EdTech startup co-founder, exited

Paolo Perrone

Oxford Univ postdoc

Projects with ARIA SGAI TA1 through Oxford and Adjoint Labs Ltd

Leading contributor to Markov category theory

Ali Zein

Tech and start-up background (Munich, Oxford, Cambridge)

Advisory board of Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

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