Ensemble is a London-based research and community organisation working at the intersection of AI safety, governance, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
We produce original research that speaks across disciplinary lines, and we create spaces where researchers, engineers, policymakers, and the broader public think together about what is being built and what it means.
We are not a policy shop that treats the technology as a black box, and we are not a lab that treats governance as someone else's problem. We sit in the space between, and we think that space is where the most important work will be done.
We work across AI safety, AI governance, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence, and we treat them as one field rather than three. Our first research outputs are in development. We will say more about specific projects when they are ready.
A regular programme of talks, seminars, and roundtables in London. Most sessions are open to anyone paying attention to what AI is becoming.
Open events with researchers and practitioners from across AI safety, governance, policy, and philosophy.
Smaller recurring sessions built for depth and disagreement. Working discussions rather than lectures.
Closed-door sessions bringing a small group of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around one problem.
The future is not a forecast. It is a design problem. And design problems require more than designers. They require everyone who will live with the result.
Ensemble Founding Manifesto
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