ADIA Lab collaborates with Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) to advance multi-agent AI systems research
Figure 1: H.E Gilles Roth, Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance (top left) with Mr. Abdulla AlKetbi, Chairman of the ADIA Lab Operations Board (top right). Seated are Mr. Jurgen Joossens, Deputy CEO of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) (bottom left) and Dr. Horst Simon, Director of ADIA Lab (bottom right)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 May 2025: ADIA Lab, the independent Abu Dhabi-based institute dedicated to basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, has partnered with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), a leading research institute in Europe, to develop a comprehensive testing framework and AI sandbox environment for multi-agent AI systems.
As AI agents increasingly perform complex tasks autonomously — from content creation to customer support — the deployment of multi-agent systems is accelerating across sectors. These systems involve the coordination of multiple AI agents, often operating independently and interacting with users, environments, and each other in ways that can be difficult to predict and govern. This presents significant challenges for ensuring reliability, sustainability, fairness, and safety.
Despite the growing adoption of these technologies, current testing methods largely remain focused on individual agents. The ADIA Lab–LIST collaboration aims to fill this critical gap by enabling system-level evaluation of multi-agent AI workflows, including emergent behaviors that may not be anticipated from the behavior of individual agents.
Commenting on the announcement, Dr. Horst Simon, Director of ADIA Lab, said: “The advent of agentic AI brings enormous promise, but also complex risks that cannot be addressed by current single-agent testing models. This collaboration with LIST allows us to take a critical step toward building the necessary infrastructure — both conceptual and technical — for evaluating multi-agent behavior holistically. Our joint sandbox will serve as a safe, controlled environment for companies and researchers to test these systems before real-world deployment.”
LIST already operates a cutting-edge AI Sandbox — a unique environment designed to stress-test AI models for bias, robustness, multilingual performance, and more.
Francesco Ferrero, Head of LIST’s Flagship Initiative on Artificial Intelligence, said: “We’ve built an operational AI Sandbox that moves beyond lab benchmarks to test how AI behaves in realistic, multilingual, and often unpredictable contexts. We’ve used it to assess AI models for fairness, transparency, robustness, and performance in languages like Luxembourgish — which are too often overlooked. What’s been missing is a structured, secure environment to test multi-agent AI systems — where agents interact, evolve, and sometimes conflict. That’s what we’re building with ADIA Lab. Together, we’re extending the sandbox to support systemic testing — enabling researchers and companies to experiment safely before real-world deployment.”
The project will include the testing of both individual and multi-agent systems, corrective strategies for improving agent performance, and designing and implementing a sandbox infrastructure. It will also explore strategies for mitigating risks through governance and prompting techniques and involve the continuous dissemination of results through joint publications and activities.
This partnership adds to ADIA Lab’s growing portfolio of international research collaborations in the area of computational data science, which include projects with institutions such as ETH Zurich, University of Toronto, University of Granada, Minsait, and Rigetti Computing.
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About ADIA Lab
ADIA Lab is an independent institution engaged in basic and applied research in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and High-Performance and Quantum Computing, across all major fields of study. This includes exploring applications in areas such as climate change and energy transition, blockchain technology, financial inclusion and investing, decision making, automation, cybersecurity, health sciences, education, telecommunications, and space.
Based in Abu Dhabi, ADIA Lab is an independent, standalone entity supported by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), a globally diversified investment institution that invests funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi.
ADIA Lab has its own governance and operational structure and is guided by an Advisory Board of global thought leaders in data and computationally intensive disciplines, to pursue its research independently.
About LIST
The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a research and technology organization (RTO) under the supervision of the Ministry of Research and Higher Education, and its mission is to develop competitive and market-oriented prototypes of products and services for public and private stakeholders.
With more than 750 employees, nearly 80% of whom are researchers or innovators from all over the world, LIST is active in the fields of information technology, materials, space resources and the environment, and works across the entire innovation chain, from basic and applied research to technology incubation and transfer.
By transforming scientific knowledge into intelligent technologies, data and tools, LIST:
helps European citizens make informed choices
helps public authorities make decisions
encourages companies to develop
For more information about the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, please visit: https://www.list.lu/
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