Netholabs Safety

Changing the way we can develop agency and alignment in AI systems
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A New Paradigm for Human Agency in an AI-Dominated World

Current AI safety relies heavily on "intent alignment," which can subtly erode human free will by learning to manipulate our goals and make our choices more predictable. Netholabs champions a new standard: explicit agency preservation. By pursuing Whole-Brain Emulation, we aim to achieve processing speed-parity with future superintelligence, allowing humans to participate as peers and maintain true control over their destiny in a post-AGI world.

Model Welfare: An Ethical Path to Machine Consciousness

As digital emulators of the brain scale up, they may naturally cross the threshold into phenomenal experience and genuine sentience. Netholabs is actively deriving the exact scaling laws to identify when and how this consciousness emerges. By rooting artificial minds in highly accurate biological dynamics, we provide a transparent, measurable framework to detect, understand, and ethically protect the cognitive states of future digital organisms