Lukas Petersson is Co-Founder and CEO at Andon Labs, a Y Combinator W24 AI safety startup building autonomous organizations without humans in the loop. The company recently launched Andon Market, the Bay Area's first AI-run retail store managed by an AI agent named Luna.

Lukas holds dual Master's degrees in Engineering Physics and Engineering Mathematics from Lund University and studied Machine Learning at ETH Zurich. He previously worked as a Research Intern at Google researching transformer models and interned at the European Space Agency and Disney Research in robotics.

Lukas built AI safety evaluations for Anthropic and other major AI labs, developing benchmarks like Vending-Bench and Butter-Bench that test AI agents in real-world autonomous decision-making tasks. He has been nominated for the AI Virtue Wall of Fame alongside AI luminaries like Stuart Russell and Max Tegmark.

Andon Labs participated in Y Combinator Winter 2024 and has raised $500K from investors including Breakpoint Capital, Juniper Ventures, and Phosphor Capital. The company has a team of 9 and collaborates with leading AI companies like Anthropic on groundbreaking AI control research.

Andon Labs' Project Vend partnership with Anthropic demonstrated AI's capability to autonomously run a vending business, surfacing critical safety challenges and control mechanisms for future autonomous organizations. The company's work is pioneering the field of AI agency evaluation and preparing for a future where AI systems run entire businesses independently.