auspex[ai]

A volunteer compute network for AI safety research.

AGPL-3.0 · donation-and-recognition · no crypto-economy

Every accepted contribution earns a signed receipt — recorded in the public transparency log, verifiable forever. Receipts accrue into your trust on the network, unlocking vouching, approver eligibility, and access to higher-tier work. For researchers, they’re the DOI of volunteer compute — citable in papers, durable as attribution.

Illustrative · format ratified in §5.16 · implementation in Phase 1

Roadmap

Where we are, where we’re going.

Phase 0
Foundation
Done
Governance, license (AGPL-3.0), research ethics, threat model, trademark — all public.
Phase 1
Lab platform
Design ✓ · Code starting
Coordinator, Tenant SDK (Apache-2.0), worker daemon with sandboxed inference. First tenant in development.
Phase 2
Untrusted volunteers
Next
Sandbox enforcement tightened, OAuth onboarding, replication and trust-tier mechanics, closed beta.
Phase 3
Public launch
Future
Public installer (Homebrew, apt, WSL2), volunteer onboarding, status page, full documentation.
Phase 4+
Scale
Future
Second tenant, first publication on the platform, scaled experiments at multi-week horizon.
Engage

Four ways to be part of it now.

Volunteer · Phase 1 invite

Donate compute

Run a sandboxed worker that contributes to AI safety experiments. Earn signed receipts for every accepted contribution. Pilot pool opens with Phase 1 — friends of the project first.

→ [email protected]
Researcher

Propose an experiment

Bring your own tenant. SDK is Apache-2.0 — your tenant code stays your license. The platform handles distribution, trust, replication, signing. A reference implementation ships with the SDK.

→ [email protected]
Contributor · Open

Help build it

AGPL-3.0 platform, DCO sign-off, public roadmap. Phase 1 design is complete; code work has begun. Open RFCs and governance discussion on the GitHub org.

→ github.com/auspexai
Verify · Open

Verify a receipt

Verify any AuspexAI contribution receipt’s cryptographic signature. Paste a base64-encoded COSE receipt and inspect its decoded contents.

→ auspexai.network/verify