Redesigning work for the age of intelligence.
Dawlad Applied AI Lab is an open research lab studying what AI needs to work alongside people, and testing every answer in the open.
- Every tool we’ve made was shaped to fit our hands.
- The most capable minds we’ve ever built spend their days in a chat box.
- They forget everything when the window closes.
- They can’t reach the systems where work happens.
- They can’t answer for what they did.
- That isn’t a limit of intelligence. It’s a limit of everything we’ve built around it.
- Developers gave it a terminal, and it went to work. Everyone else is still waiting.
- We’ve been here before. When electricity arrived, factories swapped steam engines for motors and changed nothing else.
- For decades, little improved. The gains came only when the work itself was redesigned.
- Intelligence is waiting for the same redesign. No single company will make it alone.
- When computers arrived, many feared they would replace us. In the end, they multiplied what each of us could do.
- So we’re all building this in the open. Anyone can try it on their own work, and help decide what it becomes.
- What becomes possible when everyone has AI working beside them?
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This foundation belongs to everyone, and it is built entirely in the open. No single company will make it alone, so we’re leaving the doors open for everyone to build it alongside us.
Contribute
Four ways to work with us.
Research collaborationFor researchers. Co-design and co-author a study.Research collaboration
For researchers. Co-design and co-author a study.
EngineeringFor engineers. Work on a question with us and be credited for your contribution.Engineering
For engineers. Work on a question with us and be credited for your contribution.
Field studiesFor practitioners and organizations. Run a study with us in your own workplace.Field studies
For practitioners and organizations. Run a study with us in your own workplace.
PartnershipsFor organizations that want to put a finding into practice.Partnerships
For organizations that want to put a finding into practice.