John Kearney

I audit the instruments the AI industry measures itself with, and file every fix upstream.

The research is conducted through Authensor, Inc., the AI-security startup and grantee, and is expanding to 15 Research Lab, its dedicated research home.

AI safety decisions run on evaluation tooling: benchmark scores, LLM-judge verdicts, red-team harnesses, guardrails. Almost nobody red-teams the tooling itself. That is the work: find where the measurement can be broken, prove it by execution, fix it upstream, and name the pattern so the field can see it.