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About

I'm Adrian Wedd. I live in Tasmania and I build things that think, break, and sometimes both.

I'm an independent AI safety researcher—building the multi-agent systems I study, writing about what happens when demonstrated risk meets institutional optimism, and trying to make more of that work public. Currently looking for interesting opportunities.

I've worked in environmental advocacy, government, and infrastructure management. The thread through all of it is an obsession with how complex systems fail. This site is where all of that lands.

How I Got Here

Environmental Advocacy

Started in conservation — learning how ecosystems fail when feedback loops break. First exposure to systems thinking at scale.

Government

Policy and public administration. Saw firsthand how institutions process (and ignore) risk. The gap between knowing and acting became a recurring theme.

Infrastructure

Managing systems that can't afford to fail. Learned that reliability is a practice, not a property — and that most failures are systemic, not technical.

AI Safety

Everything converges here. Multi-agent systems, failure modes, institutional blind spots. Building the tools to surface what models actually do, not what we hope they do.

What I'm Working On

Right now: AI safety frameworks that start from what can go wrong, not what should go right. Multi-agent systems where the safety constraints are physical, not theoretical. And the gap between what organisations know about technological risk and what they actually do about it — which turns out to be enormous.

I also write, make art, and occasionally record audio. This site is the workbench — finished work, ongoing experiments, and raw thinking all in one place.

Elsewhere

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