Jeffrey Ladish leads Palisade Research, investigating AI agents' capabilities and behavior to help prevent loss of human control. His background spans founding Gordian Research, building Anthropic's security program through that consultancy, leading security at Reserve and security engineering at Concur.
Executive Director
Leads research and communication on advanced AI agents, including offensive capabilities and loss-of-control risks. Co-authored work on shutdown resistance.
Information Security and Biosecurity Consultant; Founder
Provides security and biosecurity consulting. Through Gordian, helped build Anthropic's information security program in 2021–2022; Anthropic was a consulting client.
Head of Information Security
BA/BS, Evolutionary Biology
