Stichting Legal Safety Lab is an Amsterdam-based foundation that harnesses legal expertise to promote safer scientific and technological progress for humanity and the environment. Operating within the European sphere, the organization leverages legal advocacy to address and minimize risks from frontier technologies including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear technology. Legal Safety Lab works to ensure that comprehensive legal frameworks clarify responsibility, establish clear legal parameters, and promote ethical implementation of dual-use technologies. The organization is closely affiliated with LASST (Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology), its US-based counterpart focused on similar goals through American legal channels.
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Theory of Change
Legal Safety Lab believes that comprehensive legal frameworks are a crucial and underutilized tool for ensuring frontier technologies are developed and deployed safely. Their theory of change holds that by employing strategic legal advocacy within the European sphere, they can help establish clear legal parameters, clarify responsibility for technology developers and deployers, and promote ethical implementation standards. By creating robust legal safeguards around dual-use technologies like AI, biotechnology, and nuclear technology, they aim to build protective mechanisms that direct these revolutionary technologies toward collective welfare rather than harmful applications. The legal approach complements technical AI safety work by creating enforceable accountability structures.
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from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC
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- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC