Esben Kran is the co-director of Apart Research, a non-profit research lab conducting original research and engaging the international community on the most important technical problems for safe and beneficial AI. He is also the co-founder of Apart’s for-profit sister organization Seldon Labs, working to accelerate AGI security companies.
Posts
- , AGI Privacy (177 recent reads)
- , AGI Security: Rethinking Society's Infrastructure (150 recent reads)
- , Cybermorphism (42 recent reads)
- , Don't Give Up (36 recent reads)
- , Let's make AI agents safe (23 recent reads)
- , Sentware (12 recent reads)
- , My Tools (12 recent reads)
- , The AGI endgame (11 recent reads)
- , Go on a yearly hiatus (11 recent reads)
- , The AI Bubble (9 recent reads)
- , The Expensive Internet hypothesis (9 recent reads)
- , "Just do the thing" (9 recent reads)
- , Audiovisual reading (4 recent reads)
- , Confident optimism (3 recent reads)
- , The concrete risks of AI misdeployment (2 recent reads)
Research
News
- [VentureBeat] Beyond sycophancy: DarkBench exposes six hidden ‘dark patterns’ lurking in today’s top LLMs
- [Information] Vores tankefrihed er under angreb fra chatbotternes subtile manipulation
- [Die Zeit] “AI will soon be able to take over your job”
- [For Humanity Podcast] Dark Patterns in AI and Creating Secure Infrastructure
- Engineering a World Designed for Safe Superintelligence (2025)
- AI Futures & Our Paths Forward (2025)
- AI Safety Startups (2024)
- Challenges and Solutions for AI Security (2024)
- Testing Your Suitability For AI Alignment Research (2023)
- AI Safety Research Outside the Hubs: A Guide for Aspiring Researchers (2023)
- Intro to Interpretability (2022)
- Series on my Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research project (2021)