David Peinador Veiga

David is a Scientist in the AI Safety team at Lila Sciences, where he leads the technical design and implementation of dangerous capability evaluations in scientific domains like biology, chemistry, and materials science. His work involves measuring model performance on scientific tasks that could pose safety risks through misuse or unintended failure modes as well as the efficacy of guardrails and other mitigations. A core challenge is designing evaluations that meaningfully capture frontier capabilities; assessing not just what models can do today, but what emerging scientific reasoning abilities might enable in adversarial or failure scenarios.

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In his previous role, David developed biosafety evaluations featured in the systems cards of Meta’s Muse Spark and multiple versions of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Opus. Previously, he completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London.