Safety at Apik Systems
Concentrating coordination authority is the highest-leverage failure mode in human history. We don't get to defer it. Every layer of the stack ships with explicit safety affordances, and the policies that govern that work are public.
Why we work this way
Post-scarcity coordination is high-leverage in both directions. The same coordination substrate that delivers abundance can, if compromised or misaligned, cause civilizational-scale damage. We treat alignment and oversight as preconditions for the work, not as overhead.
We commit to working in public on the things that matter — capability thresholds, evaluation methodology, and incident response. We are honest about what we don't yet know and update our policies as our understanding improves.
Read our positions in detail below.
Policies and principles
Safety Principles
Foundational positions on alignment, control, deployment, and oversight for frontier autonomous systems.
Responsible Development Policy
Versioned commitments on capability thresholds (AS-1 through AS-4), required evaluations, and pre-deployment gating.
Transparency
Model reports, system cards, and incident disclosures.
Acceptable Use Policy
Universal usage standards and high-risk-category requirements for any Apik product or API.
Channels
If you have observed or are concerned about an Apik system, write to security@apiksystems.com. We respond to material reports within 72 hours and follow the disclosure schedule defined in our Responsible Development Policy.
Researchers proposing collaborative red-team or evaluation work should write to research@apiksystems.com.