Contact
15 Research Lab is an independent AI safety research operation based in Chicago. For research inquiries, collaboration, or press: johndanielkearney@gmail.com
John Kearney
Founder & lead researcher. Penetration tester and AI safety researcher applying offensive security methodology to evaluate the tools the AI safety field depends on. 73+ adversarial agent trials across 5 frontier models. 3 preprints on refusal side-channels, RLHF token inflation, and grokking capacity limits.
Also founder of Authensor, which operationalizes 15RL research findings as open-source adversarial evaluation tools.
Open to
- Research collaboration on adversarial evaluation of AI safety infrastructure
- Fellowship and PhD program discussions
- Advisory on adversarial AI testing methodology
- Data sharing and methodology review