Real Safety AI Foundation is an Illinois nonprofit with an international presence working where AI safety meets civil rights, disability rights, education, and ethical technology. We build the safeguards the industry skipped and hold builders accountable when they go missing. Our work runs across four core initiatives.

AI Literacy Labs delivers free, evidence-based curriculum for K-12 educators nationwide, teaching students and teachers how AI actually works, how to spot manipulation and misinformation, and how to use AI tools responsibly. AI literacy is not optional. It is a basic skill for the modern world.

The Harm Blindness Framework is our flagship contribution to responsible AI. It helps organizations identify who a product will harm before it ships, not after. We built it by studying 492 documented cases of institutional harm across recorded history and the modern tech industry, then distilling the patterns into a structured set of checkpoints and questions. The cases came first; the framework grew from them. It turns ethics from a checkbox into a working risk-management tool, is freely available, and is under review for state-level policy use.

Civil Rights, Disability, and Data Justice is our legal arm. We develop litigation theory and scholarship showing that existing law, Section 504, the ADA, and data privacy and cybersecurity law, already reaches the harms AI causes, from algorithmic discrimination to inaccessible technology to AI-induced psychosis to misuse of personal data. We publish law review articles and ready-to-use legal theory practitioners can take into a filing, aimed at enforcement, not awareness.

Teacher in the Loop is our patent-pending AI tutoring platform built for special education. It bakes invisible IEP accommodations into the learning experience, so students get individualized support without stigma while educators keep oversight, with structural safeguards against teacher displacement.

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