AI Infrastructure for Understanding Crisis and UncertaintyProprietary real-world benchmarks, evaluation frameworks and multimodal datasets for frontier AI.
KRISIS LABS
Frontier AI is increasingly trained on enormous volumes of video and multimodal data. Scale creates increasingly capable models, but one question remains:What do those models actually understand when information is incomplete, context is uncertain, and events are still unfolding?Krisis Labs develops proprietary benchmarks, evaluation frameworks and multimodal datasets to investigate that question.Research FrameworkKrisis Labs investigates three complementary dimensions of AI understanding.JudgmentWhat should an AI system infer from incomplete information?MeaningWhat does an AI system understand about human intent, narrative and context?SignalsWhen does an AI system recognize that the world is changing?Research AssetsFrontline Crisis ArchiveA rare observational archive of continuous footage recorded inside active crisis environments before the social-media era.Designed for research into:decision-making under uncertainty
temporal reasoning
multimodal evaluation
longitudinal understandingHuman Meaning & Narrative CorpusA multimodal corpus aligning audiovisual works with first-party creator explanations, structured metadata and independent editorial curation.3,500+ works
4.5M+ words
Thousands of images
100+ curated thematic collectionsResearch focus:After training on enormous volumes of audiovisual data, what does an AI system actually understand about the meaning of an unseen human-created work?Krisis Observatory (in development)A longitudinal research platform extending these questions from historical archives into contemporary environments by documenting how places and systems change over time.Current Research- Transitional Signal Detection benchmark
- Human Meaning & Narrative benchmark
- Krisis ObservatoryCollaborationKrisis Labs collaborates with AI labs, research institutions and strategic partners on:- benchmark development
- multimodal evaluation
- specialist datasets
- research collaborationsWe are currently exploring research partners for expanded multimodal benchmark studies.Founder
Dr. Carmela Baranowska, PhD
Award-winning frontline conflict journalist, documentary filmmaker and PhD researcher.Her thirty-year observational archive forms the foundation of the Krisis research program. She is the only recipient of both the Rory Peck Award and the Walkley Award for this work.Krisis Labs, California, USA