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Last updated: 12 March 2026
Campaign group aiming to convince governments to pause AI development – through public outreach, engaging with decision-makers, and organizing protests.
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Advocacy
Aiming to catalyze collective effort towards reducing existential risk, including through an extensive action list for individuals, organizations, and nations.
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Advocacy
Informing the public debate on existential risks, on the basis that awareness is the first step towards reducing those risks.
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Advocacy
Raising awareness about modern AI, highlighting its benefits and risks, and letting the public know how they can help – mainly through workshops.
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Advocacy
Nonprofit founded by David Krueger aiming to inform and organize the public around societal-scale risks and harms of AI.
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Advocacy
Empowering organizations, researchers, and creators to translate the future of AI into stories the world understands.
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Advocacy
Calling on policymakers to implement a global moratorium on large AI training runs until alignment is solved.
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Advocacy
New advocacy org demanding transparency, accountability, and real safeguards to protect humanity from the risks of unchecked AI.
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Advocacy
Researching ways to use legal advocacy to make science and technology safer, informing legal professionals about how to help, and advocating in the courts and policy-setting institutions.
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Advocacy
Using legal advocacy in Europe to address risks from frontier technologies, working to foster responsible development and implementation practices.
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Advocacy
Non-violent civil resistance organization working to permanently ban the development of smarter-than-human AI.
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Advocacy
Communications nonprofit focused on changing the narrative air that policymakers in Washington D.C. breathe with respect to AI safety.
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Advocacy
Watchdog nonprofit monitoring tech companies, countering corporate propaganda, raising awareness about corner-cutting, and advocating for the responsible development of AI.
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Advocacy
Steering transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks through outreach, policy advocacy, grantmaking, and event organization.
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Advocacy, Governance, Funding
A collaborative effort to bring together Buddhist communities, technologists, and contemplative researchers worldwide to help shape the future of AI.
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Advocacy, Governance, Strategy
Conducting educational initiatives, research support, and public awareness campaigns. Project of Geoffrey Hinton.
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Advocacy, Research support
Blog covering many topics, including reasoning, science, psychiatry, medicine, ethics, genetics, economics, politics, and AI. Often book summaries and commentary on AI safety.
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Blog
Blog by Zvi Mowshowitz on various topics, including AI, offering detailed analysis, personal insights, and a rationalist perspective. Posts very frequently.
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Blog
Platform from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) posting articles written by experts from a wide range of fields discussing the impacts of AI.
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Blog
Blog by AI safety researcher Daniel Paleka curating and succinctly analyzing the latest research and news in AI safety. Posts about every two months.
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Blog
Substack by Ajeya Cotra, researcher at METR, covering AI capabilities forecasting, AI agent benchmarks, timelines for automating AI R&D, and implications for AI safety.
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Blog
Publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance, including research summaries, opinions, interviews, and explainers.
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Blog
Blog by Eric Drexler on AI prospects and their surprising implications for technology, economics, environmental concerns, and military affairs.
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Blog
Blog on AI safety by Jacob Steinhardt, a UC Berkeley statistics professor, analysing risks, forecasting future breakthroughs, and discussing alignment strategies.
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Blog
Deep, thoughtful coverage on China, technology, and US-China relations – written by Jordan Schneider.
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Blog
Blog about transformative AI, futurism, research, ethics, philanthropy etc. by Holden Karnofsky. Includes the "Most Important Century" post series. Last posted in 2024.
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Blog
Blog from the Google DeepMind safety team discussing research ideas about building AI safely.
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Blog
Blog from ex-OpenAI (now independent) AI policy researcher Miles Brundage on the rapid evolution of AI and the urgent need for thoughtful governance.
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Blog
Reporting and analysis on capitalism, great power competition, and the race to build superintelligence by freelance journalist Garrison Lovely.
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Blog
Blog on aligning prosaic AI by one of the leading AI safety researchers. No longer active but the archive is high quality.
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Blog
Blog by Helen Toner (director of CSET and former OpenAI board member) offering analysis on navigating the transition to advanced AI systems.
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Blog
Blog about building the fields of AI safety and Effective Altruism, discussing big-picture strategy and sharing personal experience from working in the space.
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Blog
Top forecaster Peter Wildeford forecasts the future and discusses AI, national security, innovation, emerging technology, and the powers – real and metaphorical – that shape the world.
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Blog
Publication by Anton Leicht on the political economy of AI progress, featuring weekly posts on how institutions and political incentives interface with fast technological change.
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Blog
Blog by an AI safety researcher at Google DeepMind, covering alignment research, rationality, and personal productivity insights. Last AI post was 2023.
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Blog
The AI safety space is changing rapidly. This directory of key information sources can help you keep up to date with the latest developments.
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Blog, Newsletter, Podcast, Video
Capabilities lab led by Elon Musk with the mission of advancing our collective understanding of the universe. Created Grok.
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Capabilities research
Chinese capabilities lab developing and releasing open-weights large language models. Created DeepSeek-R1.
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Capabilities research
Astera Institute's research program exploring neuroscience-informed approaches to AGI, with teams focused on neuroscience, neuro-AI, and AI safety.
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Capabilities research, Conceptual research
Capabilities company focusing on LLM alignment, particularly interpretability. Featuring Chris Olah, Jack Clark, and Dario Amodei. Created Claude.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
London-based capabilities company with a strong safety team, led by Demis Hassabis. Created AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
Capabilities company that created ChatGPT, led by Sam Altman. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI safety researchers left the company.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
Research lab founded by Ilya Sutskever, comprised of a small team of engineers and researchers working towards building a safe superintelligence.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
A strategy for accelerating alignment research by using human-in-the-loop systems which empower human agency rather than outsource it.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
For-profit company developing tools that automatically assess the risks of AI models and developing its own AI models aiming to provide best-in-class safety and security.
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Capabilities research, Empirical research
A guide written for people who are familiar with the arguments for the importance of AI alignment and are considering pursuing a career working on it.
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Career support
Curated list of job posts around the world tackling pressing problems, including AI safety. Also has a newsletter.
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Career support
Regularly-updated article with motivation and advice around pursuing a career in AI safety.
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Career support
Grassroots volunteer organization helping people contribute to reducing catastrophic risk from AI by directing them to the most relevant resources and communities.
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Career support
Directory of advisors offering free guidance calls to help you discover how best to contribute to AI safety, tailored to your skills and interests.
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Career support
Helping professionals transition to high-impact work by performing market research on impactful jobs and providing career mentoring, opportunity matching, and professional training.
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Career support
Empowering students to use their theses as a pathway to impact. Lists research topic ideas and runs an accelerator and fellowship coaching people working on them.
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Career support
Working to bridge the gap between frontier AI models and the level of cybersecurity they need by connecting professionals to high-leverage opportunities in AI security.
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Career support
Supporting working professionals to maximize their positive impact through their talent directory and Impact Accelerator Program.
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Career support
Helps those who want to have a meaningful impact with their careers brainstorm career paths, evaluate options, and plan next steps.
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Career support
Nonprofit helping existential safety advocates to systematically optimize their lives and work.
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Career support
Runs various projects aimed at education, skill development, and creating pathways into impactful careers.
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Career support, Training and education
Research organization trying to understand how to formalize mechanistic explanations of neural network behavior.
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Conceptual research
Wiki on AI alignment theory, mostly written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Includes foundational concepts, open problems, and proposed solutions.
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Conceptual research
Developing the conceptual and technical wherewithal to reorient the general thrust of AI research towards provably beneficial systems. Led by Stuart Russell at UC Berkeley.
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Conceptual research
Independent alignment researcher working on selection theorems, abstraction, and agency.
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Conceptual research
Conducting long-term future research on improving cooperation in competition for the development of transformative AI.
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Conceptual research
Formal alignment organization led by Tamsin Leake, focused on agent foundations. Also has a public Discord server.
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Conceptual research
Studying questions about multi-agent systems composed of humans and advanced AI. Based at Charles University, Prague.
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Conceptual research
Research group studying agent foundations in order to create the mathematical tools to align the objectives of an AI with human values.
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Conceptual research
Research group working on foundational mathematics that provides an understanding of the nature of AI agents.
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Conceptual research
Professor at University of Louisville with a background in cybersecurity, and author of over 100 publications – including 2 books on AI safety.
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Conceptual research
Associate professor at MIT working on agent alignment. Runs the Algorithmic Alignment Group.
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Conceptual research
Brain-inspired framework using insights from neuroscience and model-based reinforcement learning to guide the design of aligned AGI systems.
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Conceptual research
Small group of independent researchers trying to find reward functions which reliably instill certain values in agents.
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Conceptual research
Research organization developing a theory of "organic alignment" to foster adaptive, non-hierarchical cooperation between humans and digital agents.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research
Large team taking a 'Neglected Approaches' approach to alignment, tackling the problem from multiple, often overlooked angles in both technical and policy domains.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research, Governance
Aiming to reduce lock-in risks by researching fundamental lock-in dynamics and implementing high-impact interventions.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research, Governance
Argentine nonprofit conducting both theoretical and empirical research to advance frontier AI safety as a sociotechnical challenge.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research, Governance
Working towards better conceptual understanding, algorithmic techniques, and policies to make AI safer and more socially beneficial.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research, Governance
Hub for researchers to discuss all ideas related to AI safety. Discussion ranges from technical models of agency to the strategic landscape, and everything in between.
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Conceptual research, Empirical research, Governance, Strategy
Israeli research and advocacy nonprofit working to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to safeguard and improve the future of humanity.
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Conceptual research, Governance
Using category theory and agent-based simulations to predict where multi-agent AI systems break down and identify control levers to prevent collective AI behavior from being harmful.
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Conceptual research, Governance
Research, grants, and community-building around AI safety, focused on conflict scenarios as well as technical and philosophical aspects of cooperation.
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Conceptual research, Strategy, Funding
Applied mathematics research nonprofit dedicated to advancing foundational alignment research. Organizes events and a research residency.
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Conceptual research, Training and education
Alignment startup born out of EleutherAI, following a Cognitive Emulation approach to build controllable LLMs and tackle core AI safety challenges.
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Empirical research
Engineering company providing evaluation implementation, data annotation, and project operations so AI safety researchers can focus on research.
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Empirical research
Researching, developing, and running evaluations of AI capabilities, including broad autonomous capabilities and the ability of AI systems to conduct AI R&D.
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Empirical research
Nonprofit researching AI control and alignment faking. Also consults governments and AI companies on AI safety practices.
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Empirical research
Aiming to detect deception by designing AI model evaluations and conducting interpretability research to better understand frontier models. Also provides guidance to policymakers.
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Empirical research
Conducting research, hosting events, and running programs – including the FAR.Lab coworking space.
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Empirical research
Researching how to align AI, markets, and democracies with what people value – from theory to practice.
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Empirical research
Product-driven research lab developing mechanisms for delegating high-quality reasoning to ML systems. Built Elicit, an AI assistant for researchers and academics.
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Empirical research
Nonprofit led by Owain Evans, researching situational awareness, deception, and hidden reasoning in LLMs.
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Empirical research
Aiming to conduct technical research that yields valuable insights into the risks and opportunities that LLM agents present for AI safety.
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Empirical research
Oxford-based startup attempting to use mathematical and theoretical techniques to achieve safe off-distribution generalization.
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Empirical research
Founded by Max Tegmark, supports a range of technical AI safety research – including mechanistic interpretability, red-teaming, and guaranteed safe AI.
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Empirical research
Researching, benchmarking, and developing lie detectors for LLMs, including using cluster normalization techniques.
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Empirical research
AI safety (and pandemic prevention) research community based in a small town in Vermont, USA.
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Empirical research
Working on research to make transformative AI more compassionate towards all sentient beings through new data generation methods.
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Empirical research
Research group using engineering approaches to understand the brain and to develop artificial learning systems.
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Empirical research
Working on LM backdoors, real-world evals, and scalable oversight. Published a paper demonstrating cryptographic backdoors that evade detection even with full white-box access.
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Empirical research
Developing tools that accelerate the rate human researchers can make progress on alignment, and building automated research systems that can assist in alignment work today.
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Empirical research
Research nonprofit focused on leading projects with the shortest path to impact for AI safety – currently working on chain-of-thought health and monitoring.
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Empirical research
Mechanistic interpretability lab building infrastructure to allow researchers to decode neural networks in order to make them more understandable, editable, and safer.
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Empirical research
AI safety research group at Mila, led by David Krueger. Previously based at the University of Cambridge.
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Empirical research
Advancing research and developing technical solutions for safe-by-design AI systems based on Scientist AI, a research direction led by Yoshua Bengio.
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Empirical research
Developing AI Control into production-ready solutions that can be deployed in real-world AI systems.
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Empirical research
Group of researchers at New York University doing empirical work with LLMs in order to address risks posed by advanced AI.
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Empirical research
Investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities and the controllability of frontier AI models in order to advise policy makers and the public on AI risks.
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Empirical research
Small team of researchers and engineers aiming to bring the best of physics and computational neuroscience together in order to understand and control AGI.
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Empirical research
Building open source, scalable, AI-driven tools to understand and analyze AI systems and steer them in the public interest.
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Empirical research
Creating tools and programs to ensure that AI and economic systems of the future are built with genuine human objectives.
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Empirical research, Capabilities research
Open-source research lab focused on interpretability and alignment. Operates primarily through a public Discord server, where research is discussed and projects are coordinated.
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Empirical research, Capabilities research
For-profit working on mitigating gradual disempowerment and the intelligence curse by creating personalized models.
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Empirical research, Capabilities research
Using singular learning theory to develop the science of understanding how training data shapes AI model behavior.
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Empirical research, Conceptual research
Conducting safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers, and advocating for safety standards.
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Empirical research, Conceptual research, Advocacy
UC Berkeley research center bridging academic research and practical policy needs in order to anticipate and address emerging cybersecurity challenges.
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Empirical research, Governance, Strategy
For-profit creating defensive cybersecurity products that mitigate AI x cyber risk. Also supports the Australian government with AI safety evals and policymaking.
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Empirical research, Strategy
Small research group forecasting the future of AI. Created 'AI 2027', a detailed forecast scenario projecting the development of artificial superintelligence.
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Forecasting
Advancing the science of forecasting for the public good by working with policymakers and nonprofits to design practical forecasting tools, and test them in large experiments.
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Forecasting
Prediction market platform covering many topics, using play money called "mana". Features markets on AI and AI safety.
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Forecasting
Well-calibrated forecasting platform covering a wide range of topics, including AI and AI safety.
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Forecasting
Advancing forecasting and epistemics to improve the long-term future of humanity. Conducts research and builds software.
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Forecasting
Research nonprofit utilizing foresight to mitigate societal-scale risks from advanced AI and other potential global catastrophic risks.
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Forecasting
Interdisciplinary group aiming to identify and understand trends in computing that create opportunities for (or pose risks to) our ability to sustain economic growth.
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Forecasting
Research institute examining the driving forces behind AI and forecasting its economic and societal impact.
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Forecasting, Strategy
Pooled multi-donor fund structured to be fast and rapidly capture emerging opportunities, including in governance, technical alignment, and evaluations. Managed by JueYan Zhang.
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Funding
The largest funder in the existential risk space, backed primarily by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna. Previously called Open Philanthropy.
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Funding
Includes PhD and postdoctoral fellowships in technical AI safety, and a PhD fellowship in US-China AI governance.
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Funding
Making grants addressing global catastrophic risks, promoting longtermism, and otherwise increasing the likelihood that future generations will flourish.
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Funding
Devises and executes bespoke giving strategies for major donors, working with them at all stages of their giving journey.
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Funding
Marketplace for funding new charities, including in AI safety. Users can find impactful projects, buy impact certificates, and weigh in on what gets funded.
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Funding
The second largest funder in AI safety, using an algorithm and meeting procedure called 'The S-process' to allocate grants.
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Funding
Empowering innovators and scientists to increase human agency by creating the next generation of responsible AI. Providing support, resources, and open-source software.
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Funding
Aiming to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI through grants towards technical research, policy, and training programs for new researchers.
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Funding
Comprehensive and up-to-date directory of sources of financial support for AI safety projects, ranging from grant programs to venture capitalists.
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Funding
Funding initiative with $25M annual giving, backing people and ideas with the funding, strategic guidance, and networks they need to steer transformative AI toward beneficial outcomes.
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Funding
Supports projects and individuals aiming to address worst-case suffering risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI systems.
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Funding
Charity foundation backed by a large philanthropic commitment supporting research into improving cooperative intelligence of advanced AI.
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Funding
Aiming to increase the impact of effective altruism projects (including AI safety) by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
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Funding
Helping philanthropists find, fund, and scale the most promising people and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
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Funding
Foresight's 'AI for Science & Safety Nodes' program offers funding, a community hub, and local compute in either San Francisco or Berlin.
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Funding
Accelerator aiming to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.
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Funding
Community of donors who have pledged to donate a significant portion of their income to highly effective charities, including those in AI safety.
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Funding
Funder housing the science-focused philanthropic efforts of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, moving large amounts of funding towards AI safety via its AI institute.
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Funding
Jed McCaleb's fund, making grants to organizations and projects in various cause areas – including AI safety.
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Funding
UK government R&D funding agency aiming to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Similar to DARPA in the US.
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Funding
Philanthropic initiative supporting researchers working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.
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Funding
Regularly-updated guide on how to donate most effectively to the AI safety field given the funding and time you have available.
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Funding
An analysis of the main funding sources in AI safety over time, useful for gaining a better understanding of what opportunities exist in the space.
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Funding
VC firm investing in ethical founders developing transformative technologies that have the potential to impact humanity on a meaningful scale.
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Funding
Swiss VC focused on reducing suffering risks, including that posed by catastrophic AI misuse and AI conflict.
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Funding
Network of donors funding charitable projects that work one level removed from direct impact, often cross-cutting between cause areas.
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Funding
VC aiming to empower founders building a radically better world with safe AI systems by investing in ambitious teams with defensible strategies that can scale to post-AGI.
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Funding
Grant program providing funding to those raising awareness about AI risks or advocating for a pause in AI development.
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Funding
Small organization with a long history of finding the people doing the best work to prevent human-created existential risks and financially supporting them.
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Funding
Identifying leaders from business, policy, and academia, and helping them take on ambitious projects in AI safety.
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Funding, Career support
VC firm investing in AI safety startups. Run by exited founders and backed by Reid Hoffman, Eric Ries, and Geoff Ralston.
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Funding, Career support
Funding neglected approaches to AI alignment through grants and fiscal sponsorship, and conducting in-house technical safety research.
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Funding, Research support
UK government organization conducting research and building infrastructure to test the safety of advanced AI and measure its impacts. Also working to shape global policy.
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Governance
Channeling public concern around AI into effective regulation through engaging with policymakers, media, and the public.
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Governance
Georgetown University think tank providing decision-makers with data-driven analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies.
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Governance
Brussels think tank focused on helping governments anticipate and responsibly govern the societal impacts of rapid technological change.
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Governance
AI governance research group at Oxford, producing research tailored towards decision-makers and running career development programmes.
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Governance
Established within the European Commission as the centre of AI expertise in the EU, playing a key role in implementing the AI Act.
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Governance
Think tank researching and advising on the legal challenges posed by AI, premised on the idea that sound legal analysis will promote security, welfare, and the rule of law.
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Governance
French nonprofit developing quantitative risk models, evaluating company practices, and leading standards development that shapes AI regulation worldwide.
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Governance
Drawing on their analyses and networks to provide decision-makers worldwide with pragmatic guidance on navigating technological, catastrophic, and political risks from AI.
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Governance
Research center housed in the Martin School of the University of Oxford researching AI governance from both technical and policy perspectives.
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Governance
Nonpartisan nonprofit and community of people across Canada, producing white papers, legislative recommendations, and government submissions.
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Governance
Politically and geographically neutral nonprofit converting insights from the existing literature into ready-made text for AI safety standards.
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Governance
Bipartisan nonprofit seeking to address a broad range of policy issues raised by AI, including current harms, national security concerns, and emerging risks.
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Governance
Developing AI safety and governance frameworks in order to provide a safe foundation for AI innovation and applications.
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Governance
US government organization developing voluntary AI standards and conducting security evaluations of AI systems. Formerly the USAISI.
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Governance
Supporting research at the intersection of law and AI safety, aiming to build a field of legal scholars working to understand how law can reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI.
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Governance
China’s self-described counterpart to the AI safety institutes of other countries. Its primary function is to represent China in international AI conversations.
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Governance
Producing research that helps French institutional actors address the security and international coordination requirements posed by the development of general purpose AI.
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Governance
Australian lobbying organization focused on AI safety policy and other AI-related issues, including cybersecurity and biosecurity. Also runs Australians for AI Safety.
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Governance
Delivering rigorous and objective public policy research on the most consequential challenges to civilization and global security.
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Governance
Nonprofit developing and advocating for AI safety principles to be put into practice in US state and federal legislatures.
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Governance
Conducting research on international AI governance, facilitating exchange between technical and policy communities, and educating diplomats and civil servants about frontier AI.
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Governance
Building bipartisan support for federal policies that prepare the US for the emergence of AI systems on the path to AGI and beyond.
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Governance
Helps AI insiders raise concerns about potential risks and misbehavior in AI development by providing whistleblowing services, expert guidance, and secure communication tools.
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Governance
Promoting informed policymaking to navigate emerging challenges from AI through research, knowledge-sharing, and skill building.
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Governance
Nonprofit fighting to keep humanity in control of AI by developing policy and conducting public outreach.
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Governance, Advocacy
Nonprofit dedicated to establishing an independent global organization capable of effectively mitigating extinction risks from AI and fairly distributing its economic benefits to all.
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Governance, Advocacy
The original AI safety technical research organization, co-founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Now focusing on policy and public outreach.
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Governance, Advocacy, Conceptual research
Research and advisory organization focused on improving the way institutions make decisions on critical global challenges.
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Governance, Strategy
Research and field-building organization focusing on policy and standards, compute governance, and international governance and China.
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Governance, Strategy
Connecting experts from academia, policy groups, civil society, industry, and beyond to promote research, shape policy, and build understanding around AI safety.
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Governance, Strategy
French nonprofit dedicated to research, education, and awareness-raising about the most extreme risks of advanced AI.
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Governance, Strategy, Advocacy
Weekly updates on the latest developments in AI research (including governance) written by Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic.
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Newsletter
Aiming to help decision-makers understand what’s happening in AI and why it matters – through news roundups, explainers, features, and opinion pieces.
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Newsletter
Weekly newsletter listing newly-announced AI safety events and training programs, both online and in-person.
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Newsletter
Newsletter published every few weeks discussing recent developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
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Newsletter
Johannes Gasteiger, an alignment researcher at Anthropic, selects and summarizes the most interesting AI safety papers each month.
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Newsletter
Newsletter listing newly announced funding opportunities for individuals and organizations working to reduce AI existential risk.
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Newsletter
Newsletter from Concordia AI, a Beijing-based social enterprise, providing updates on AI safety developments in China.
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Newsletter
Current-events newsletter for keeping up to date with FMxAI (formal methods and AI) with a gear toward safety, doing a mix of shallow technical reviews of papers and movement updates.
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Newsletter
Infrequent newsletter aiming to inform readers about recent ML safety research, focussing on areas like adversarial robustness, interpretability, and control.
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Newsletter
In-depth conversations about the world’s most pressing problems – including AI safety – and what you can do to help solve them.
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Podcast
Interviews with (mostly technical) AI safety researchers about their research, aiming to get a sense of why it was written and how it might reduce existential risk from AI.
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Podcast
Interviews with existential risk researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and a range of other influential thinkers.
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Podcast
Biweekly podcast where host Nathan Labenz interviews AI innovators and thinkers, discussing the transformative impact AI will likely have in the near future.
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Podcast
Well-researched interviews with influential intellectuals going in-depth on AI and technology, and their broader societal implications.
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Podcast
Podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) discussing AI regulation, innovation, national security, and geopolitics.
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Podcast
Building and maintaining key online resources for the AI safety community, including AISafety.com and AISafety.info. Volunteers welcome.
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Research support
Free or subsidised accommodation and board in Blackpool, England, for people working on/transitioning to working on global catastrophic risks.
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Research support
Community of researchers and policymakers from over 13 countries across Europe, united in their efforts to advance AI safety.
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Research support
Providing fiscal sponsorship to AI safety projects, saving them time and allowing them to access more funding.
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Research support
Providing flexible funding and operations support to university research groups working on existential risk, enabling projects otherwise hindered by university administration.
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Research support
Incubating early-stage AI safety research organizations. The program involves co-founder matching, mentorship, and seed funding, culminating in an in-person building phase.
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Research support
Center for collaborative research in AI safety, supporting promising work through fellowships, an incubator, and hosting individuals and teams.
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Research support
Conducts research and provides strategy consulting services to clients trying to advance AI safety – and other causes – through policy, politics, coalitions or social movements.
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Research support
Nonprofit maintaining LessWrong, the Alignment Forum, and Lighthaven (an event space in Berkeley, USA).
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Research support
Coworking space hosting organizations (including BlueDot Impact, Apollo Research), acceleration programs (including MATS, ARENA), and independent researchers.
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Research support
12/14-week program run by Fifty Years, helping scientists and engineers build startups working on AI safety.
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Research support
Creating new AI safety orgs by identifying unowned problems, mapping stakeholders, drafting milestones, sourcing early funders, and recruiting an expert leader to take ownership.
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Research support
Marketing firm helping socially impactful projects grow, both through consulting and running full-scale campaigns.
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Research support
Providing consultancy and hands-on support to help high-impact organizations upgrade their operations.
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Research support
Incubator and coworking space in San Francisco aimed at various groups, including those working on AI safety.
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Research support
Nonprofit aiming to prevent extinction and reduce suffering risks by providing funding, 1-1 coaching, and career advice.
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Research support
Free accomodation and board in Blackpool, England, for individuals doing work related to pushing for a pause to AI development.
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Research support
Coworking space in Zurich, Switzerland, for people working on AI safety or effective altruism. Regularly hosts events – ranging from relaxed gatherings to lightning talks and discussions.
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Research support
Program designed to help AI safety organizations strengthen their management and leadership practices in order to amplify their effectiveness.
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Research support
Nonprofit running programs to give altruists the tools they need to improve their mental health, so they can have a greater impact on the world.
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Research support
Fostering responsible governance of AI to reduce catastrophic risks through shared understanding and collaboration among key global actors.
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Research support
Coworking, events, and community space for people working on AI safety. Runs regular talks, hackathons, and networking events.
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Research support
AI safety coworking and events space in Toronto, Canada, providing a physical space, hosting events, and maintaining a collaborative community.
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Research support
AI safety research lab hosting open-to-all research sprints, publishing papers, and incubating talented researchers.
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Research support, Career support
Coworking space and field-building nonprofit based in Cambridge, UK. Houses projects like CAISH and the ERA:AI Fellowship, as well as visiting AI safety researchers.
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Research support, Training and education
Hub for key resources for the AI safety community, including directories of courses, jobs, upcoming events and training programs etc. – and this map!
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Resource
Forum on doing good as effectively as possible, including AI safety. Also has a podcast featuring text-to-speech narrations of top posts.
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Resource
Online forum dedicated to improving human reasoning, containing a lot of AI safety content. Also has a podcast featuring text-to-speech narrations of top posts.
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Resource
Concise visual explainers of important trends in AI, grounded in concrete examples of what AI models can do right now.
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Resource
Database tracking people, organizations, and “products” in the AI safety community, serving as a reference for positions, affiliations, and related data.
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Resource
The biggest real-time online community of people interested in AI safety, with channels ranging from general topics to specific fields to local groups.
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Resource
Online platform monitoring the emergence of large-scale AI risks, featuring curated information on evaluations, incidents, and policies.
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Resource
AI safety chatbot that excels at addressing hard questions and counterarguments about existential risk.
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Resource
Accessible, comic-illustrated series describing the history of AI capabilities, the alignment problem, and potential solutions.
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Resource
Flashcards for helping to learn and memorize the main organizations, projects, and programs currently operating in the AI safety space.
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Resource
Field-building organization now chiefly serving as the home for an extensive resources list called Lots of Links.
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Resource
Directory of domains freely available to be used for high-impact projects, including those contributing to AI safety.
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Resource
Comprehensive living database of over 1600 AI risks, categorized by their cause and risk domain.
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Resource
Spanish-language website featuring AI safety educational tools, including a daily‑updated monitor of AI safety research papers.
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Resource
Open source interpretability platform including infrastructure, data, and tools for circuit tracing, activation steering, and semantic search.
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Resource, Empirical research
Ranked and scored contributable compendium of alignment plans and their problems. Runs regular hackathons.
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Strategy
Interdisciplinary research center at the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential and global catastrophic risks.
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Strategy
International initiative with 44 member countries working to implement human-centric, safe, secure, and trustworthy AI embodied in the principles of the OECD Recommendation on AI.
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Strategy
Interdisciplinary research center at the University of Cambridge exploring the nature, ethics, and impact of AI.
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Strategy
Research nonprofit working on models of past and future progress in AI, intelligence enhancement, and sociology related to existential risks.
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Strategy
Convening academic, civil society, industry, and media organizations to create solutions so that AI advances positive outcomes for people and society.
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Strategy
Collects actions frontier AI companies can take to improve safety and public information on what they're doing, then evaluates them accordingly.
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Strategy
Conducting interdisciplinary research supporting global AI risk management. Also produces policy and technical research.
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Strategy
Small research nonprofit focused on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems.
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Strategy
Small think tank developing solutions for reducing existential risk by leveraging both scholarship and the demands of real-world decision-making.
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Strategy
A series of proposals developed by ControlAI intended for action by policymakers in order for humanity to survive artifical superintelligence.
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Strategy
Researching solutions and strategies and mobilizing resources across various cause areas – including AI safety – in order to safeguard a flourishing present and future.
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Strategy
Living document aiming to present a coherent worldview explaining the race to AGI and extinction risks and what to do about them – in a way that is accessible to non-technical readers.
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Strategy
Building a foundational series of sociotechnical reports on key AI scenarios and governance recommendations, and conducting awareness campaigns to the general public.
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Strategy, Advocacy
Aiming to improve institutional response to existential risk from AI by conducting research and outreach, and developing educational materials.
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Strategy, Advocacy
Answering decision-relevant questions about the future of AI, including through research, a wiki, and expert surveys. Run by MIRI.
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Strategy, Forecasting
Think tank aiming to transform global resilience to extreme risks by improving relevant governance, processes, and decision-making.
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Strategy, Governance
Pushing academic and policy discourse forward through research and engagement on horizon scanning, decision making under deep uncertainty, and citizens' assemblies.
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Strategy, Governance
Workshop letting decision-makers experience the tensions and risks that can emerge in the highly competitive environment of AI development through an educational roleplay game.
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Strategy, Governance, Training and education
Accessible guide to AI safety for those new to the space, in the form of a comprehensive FAQ and AI safety chatbot. Project of Rob Miles.
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Training and education
Runs the standard introductory courses for people new to AI safety. Two main streams: Technical AI Safety and Frontier AI Governance.
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Training and education
Research program connecting talented scholars with top mentors in AI safety. Involves 12 weeks onsite mentored research in Berkeley, and, if selected, 6–12 months extended research.
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Training and education
8-day intensive in-person bootcamps upskilling participants in technical AI safety research, held in various locations around the world.
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Training and education
7-month program for graduates to launch EU policy careers reducing risks from AI. Comprised of an online reading group, a Brussels policymaking summit, and optional paid placement.
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Training and education
3-month part-time online research program with mentorship, aimed at helping people who want to work on AI safety team up together on concrete projects.
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Training and education
Georgia Tech community conducting training programs and research projects investigating open problems in AI safety.
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Training and education
Course from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) covering a wide range of risks while leveraging concepts and frameworks from existing research fields to analyze AI safety.
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Training and education
Comprehensive, up-to-date directory of AI safety curricula and reading lists for self-led learning at all levels.
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Training and education
4–5 week ML engineering upskilling program, focusing on alignment. Aims to provide individuals with the skills, community, and confidence to contribute directly to technical AI safety.
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Training and education
Short hackathons and challenges, both online and in-person around the world, focused on important questions in AI safety.
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Training and education
Helping students get into AI safety research via upskilling programs and fellowships. Supports AISST and MAIA.
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Training and education
In-person, paid, 8-week summer research fellowship at the University of Cambridge for aspiring AI safety and governance researchers.
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Training and education
Designed for students and professionals who are interested in research in human-compatible AI. Interns work on a research project supervised by a mentor.
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Training and education
2-3 month summer research fellowship in London working on challenging research questions relevant to reducing suffering in the long-term future.
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Training and education
Intensive 3-day workshops for students to explore the foundational arguments around risks from advanced AI (and biotechnology). Run by Kairos.
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Training and education
3-month program by the Centre for the Governance of AI, designed to help professionals transition to working on AI governance.
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Training and education
3-month program where participants work in teams of 3–4, supervised by an experienced AI safety researcher, to write an academic-style paper.
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Training and education
Part-time research program run by Cambridge AI Safety Hub (CAISH), connecting aspiring researchers with experienced mentors to conduct AI safety research for 2–3 months.
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Training and education
3-month interdisciplinary program connecting researchers from diverse fields with AI safety mentors, in order to help them transition their career to AI safety.
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Training and education
Annual 9-week program designed to enable promising researchers to produce impactful research and accelerate their careers in AI safety.
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Training and education
Convening stakeholders, training civil servants and civil society leaders, and conducting regional AI policy research in Asia.
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Training and education
10-week remote mentorship program for women looking to strengthen their research skills and network in technical Al alignment research.
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Training and education
Annual program providing students and early-career professionals in AI, computer science, and related disciplines with a firm grounding in the emerging field of cooperative AI.
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Training and education
1-year program catalyzing collaboration among young scientists, engineers, and innovators working to advance technologies for the benefit of life.
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Training and education
Remote, part-time research opportunities in AI policy and philosophy for safe AI. Provides ongoing support, including coworking sessions, issue troubleshooting, and career guidance.
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Training and education
Annual 4-day program held in Prague, Czech Republic, teaching alignment research methodology through talks, workshops, and discussions.
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Training and education
Fully-funded, 3-month program by the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) for professionals seeking to strengthen practical policy skills for managing the challenges of advanced AI.
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Training and education
Fully-funded research program connecting exceptional STEM researchers with full-time placement opportunities at AI safety organizations for up to 6 months.
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Training and education
8-week mentored research program for London students, where teams explore a research question tackling global challenges – including AI safety.
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Training and education
Interdisciplinary online fellowship helping teenagers explore how to steer cutting-edge AI technology toward benefitting humanity.
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Training and education
Fellowship helping people ages 14–20 launch research projects tackling the world’s most pressing problems – including AI safety.
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Training and education
London-based talent development scheme designed to equip outstanding students with the knowledge and skills to shape the future of AI governance.
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Training and education
Fellowship run by Kairos supporting university organizers working on AI safety groups by offering funding, 1-on-1 mentorship, resources, and ecosystem connections.
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Training and education
3-month, part-time research program run by Kairos where mentees collaborate with researchers on impactful projects, with funding provided for compute and project expenses.
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Training and education
14-week part-time program building technical AI safety research skills through the ARENA curriculum. Consists of weekly in-person learning sessions followed by a 3-week project.
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Training and education
10-week, in-person summer research fellowship giving students the opportunity to produce high impact research on various emerging threats, including from AI.
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Training and education
Filipino nonprofit aiming to develop more AI interpretability and safety researchers in and around Southeast Asia.
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Training and education
Supporting journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI. Runs fellowships, grants, and residencies.
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Training and education, Funding
African-led research program dedicated to developing talent, generating research, and shaping policy to advance AI safety.
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Training and education, Governance
Animated videos aiming to foster good thinking, promote altruistic causes, and help ensure humanity's future goes well – particularly regarding AI safety.
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Video
The most popular AI safety education channel, explaining technical alignment concepts to general audiences through accessible explainer videos.
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Video
Channel hosted by Liron Shapira featuring in-depth debates, explainers, and live Q&A sessions, focused on AI existential risk and other implications of superintelligence.
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Video
YouTuber discussing the latest AI developments as they happen, offering explanations and analysis of important research and events.
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Video
Channel produced by 80,000 Hours presenting thoroughly researched, cinematic stories about what's happening in AI and where the trends are taking us.
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Video
Comprehensive directory of AI safety video content, from beginner-friendly introductions to in-depth expert talks.
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Video
Computer science PhD and AI research scientist talking about how AI will likely affect the world, along with expert interviews.
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Video
Talks given by AI safety experts at various events, covering topics ranging from mechanistic interpretability to evals and governance.
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Video
YouTube channel raising awareness about the lethal dangers of AGI through explainer videos and podcasts.
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Video
YouTube channel explaining (mostly) AI safety concepts through entertaining stickman videos.
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Video
Channel run by Drew Spartz educating a general audience about AI risk through high-effort mini-documentaries.
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Video
YouTube channel run by John Sherman, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning former investigative journalist, aiming to make AI risk a kitchen table conversation.
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Video