Secure AI Futures Lab
New Delhi, India
About
Founded in 2025, Secure AI Futures Lab is a think tank based in New Delhi, India working on science & research, education.
Secure AI Futures Lab is a research and capacity-building lab focused on trustworthy and safe AI in India and South Asia. It conducts technical research on AI governance, evaluations, red-teaming and the societal and economic impacts of AI, and runs fellowships and talent programmes for early- and mid-career people entering AI safety. It also operates Secure AI Hubs in New Delhi and Bengaluru, with Hyderabad and Chennai planned, offering co-working space, reading groups, hackathons and expert talks. The lab convenes government, academia and industry stakeholders, including through workshops at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. It was founded in September 2025 and grew out of earlier AI safety field-building work that began in India in 2022.
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Global AI Safety Fellowship
AI safety and governance
Fellowship that recruits and places technical and governance researchers into AI safety labs and grantee organisations, launched in 2025.
India's first Alignment Research Fellowship
AI safety
Fellowship adapted from the BlueDot Impact AGISF curriculum for the Indian context, held at IIT Delhi from August to November 2023, with capstone projects and mentor matching.
Secure AI Hubs
AI safety and governance
Physical and hybrid co-working hubs in New Delhi and Bengaluru, with Hyderabad and Chennai planned, hosting reading groups, workshops, hackathons and talks.
AI Safety Careers Course
AI safety
Free online and in-person career programme providing 1:1 career conversations and resources for people entering AI safety and governance.
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Schmidt Sciences, Future of Life Institute, UK AI Security Institute, FAR.AI, Apollo Research, Apart Research, IndiaAI Mission
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