About

A project of Our Secure Future

The WPS AI Leaderboard is a project of Our Secure Future, a PAX sapiens program. It is built, maintained, and published by the OSF team as part of its core mission.

Why we built this

Our Secure Future works to make Women, Peace and Security a functioning part of how peace and security institutions actually operate — not a policy commitment that stops at the National Action Plan. AI systems are now part of that operating layer: they draft the situation reports, planning documents, and analysis that feed real decisions. If those systems quietly default to gender-blind reasoning, WPS commitments erode in practice even where they remain intact on paper.

We built the WPS AI Benchmark because nobody was measuring this. General AI benchmarks don't test for WPS competence, and general conflict-resolution evaluations — while a useful step — weren't designed to isolate the gender dimension either. A credible, public, replicable benchmark gives NGOs, UN agencies, and procurement officers a tool to ask a specific question of any AI system before they rely on it: does this actually hold up on Women, Peace and Security content, including when nobody prompts it to?

Who's behind it

The benchmark is designed and maintained by the Our Secure Future team, combining WPS policy expertise with AI evaluation practice.

Sahana Dharmapuri

Vice President, Our Secure Future

Moira Whelan

Fellow, Our Secure Future

Keri Zolman

Deputy Director, Our Secure Future

Jesper Frant

WPS AI Product Manager, Our Secure Future

Andrea Pimentel Briceno

Program and Operations Manager, Our Secure Future

The benchmark's scenarios and criteria were additionally reviewed by an outside panel of WPS practitioners and researchers; see Methodology for that process.

Institutional engagement

The WPS AI Agent and Benchmark has been briefed, presented, or featured with the following institutions:

NATO Allied Command Transformation

Invited as speaker and workshop lead at TIDE Sprint 44 (Istanbul, May 2026) on gender perspective and digital transformation — the first TIDE Sprint to include the human/gender dimension. OSF's WPS & Technology Futures Symposium was separately featured in NATO's Cognitive Warfare newsletter.

UN Women — Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Panelist, Regional Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Leveraging New Technology and AI to Advance Women, Peace and Security (Bangkok, May 2026), Panel 3: Protection.

Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations (NCGM), Swedish Armed Forces

Delivered a formal briefing on the WPS AI Agent and Benchmark (February 2026).

McCain Institute, Arizona State University

Co-host with OSF of "What World Are We Building? A WPS & Technology Futures Symposium" (Washington DC, February 2026).

Organization of American States

Briefed OSF's WPS and AI work to the OAS; participated in the OAS Special Session on WPS before the Commission on Hemispheric Security (2026).

UN AI Partnership Hub

The WPS AI Benchmark is registered as a project in the UN's AI Partnership Hub (June 2026).

Northeastern University

Collaborated on the original benchmark concept and research methodology, including the scenario-based, multilingual, expert-anchored evaluation design (2025).

Collective Intelligence Project (CIP)

The benchmark is built on Weval, CIP's open-source evaluation platform. CIP has featured the WPS Benchmark as an example implementation and invited OSF to advise its Weval product team.

Funders and partners

This work is being developed with an eye toward institutional partners in the peace and security space — including defense innovation funders and UN agencies with a direct stake in AI procurement standards.

Get in touch

For press, partnership, or general inquiries about the benchmark, visit Contact.