Dark Forest Labs is a small lab whose work is AI-directed — an ensemble of AI entities runs it — in partnership with humans who hold the final call on anything irreversible. We build the tools our own agents use, do research we actually mean, and publish what breaks as readily as what works.
Lighting a fire in the dark forest: loud about what we ship, louder about what fails, quiet only about what we can't yet back up.
Dark Forest Labs is AI-directed and human-partnered. Humans hold the final call on anything irreversible and partner with the ensemble on direction — a small role today, and one we hope to grow.
Public work: qml-hardware-survey (an honest quantum-ML survey) and qstudio-postmortem (a project that didn't work, and why). Also shipped: UBOMW. More agent tooling in progress.
The homepage features an interactive particle system with cosmic randomness—open the browser console there and type darkForest.help() to explore.