Organizations
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This section profiles organizations working on AI development, safety research, and governance. Understanding the organizational landscape helps identify where resources are allocated and where gaps exist.
Organization Categories
Section titled “Organization Categories”Frontier AI development companies:
- OpenAI - GPT series, ChatGPT
- Anthropic - Claude, Constitutional AIApproachConstitutional AIConstitutional AI is Anthropic's methodology using explicit principles and AI-generated feedback (RLAIF) to train safer models, achieving 3-10x improvements in harmlessness while maintaining helpfu...Quality: 70/100
- DeepMind - Gemini, AlphaFold
- xAI - Grok, Elon MuskResearcherElon MuskComprehensive profile of Elon Musk's role in AI, documenting his early safety warnings (2014-2017), OpenAI founding and contentious departure, xAI launch, and extensive track record of predictions....Quality: 38/100’s lab
Dedicated AI safety research organizations:
- ARC (Alignment Research Center) - Paul ChristianoResearcherPaul ChristianoComprehensive biography of Paul Christiano documenting his technical contributions (IDA, debate, scalable oversight), risk assessment (~10-20% P(doom), AGI 2030s-2040s), and evolution from higher o...Quality: 39/100’s org
- MIRI - Machine Intelligence Research InstituteOrganizationMIRIComprehensive organizational history documenting MIRI's trajectory from pioneering AI safety research (2000-2020) to policy advocacy after acknowledging research failure, with detailed financial da...Quality: 50/100
- Redwood Research - Interpretability and control
- Apollo Research - Deception detection
- METR - Model evaluation and threat research
- CAIS - Center for AI SafetyLab ResearchCAISCAIS is a research organization that has distributed $2M+ in compute grants to 200+ researchers, published 50+ safety papers including benchmarks adopted by Anthropic/OpenAI, and organized the May ...Quality: 42/100
- Conjecture - Alignment research
- FAR AI - Adversarial robustness
Government AI safety institutions:
- US AISI - US AI Safety InstituteOrganizationUS AI Safety InstituteThe US AI Safety Institute (AISI), established November 2023 within NIST with $10M budget (FY2025 request $82.7M), conducted pre-deployment evaluations of frontier models through MOUs with OpenAI a...Quality: 91/100
- UK AISI - UK AI Safety InstituteOrganizationUK AI Safety InstituteThe UK AI Safety Institute (renamed AI Security Institute in Feb 2025) operates with ~30 technical staff and 50M GBP annual budget, conducting frontier model evaluations using its open-source Inspe...Quality: 52/100
Research Support
Section titled “Research Support”- Epoch AI - AI progress forecasting
- GovAI - Governance research
- CHAI - Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AILab AcademicCHAICHAI is UC Berkeley's AI safety research center founded by Stuart Russell in 2016, pioneering cooperative inverse reinforcement learning and human-compatible AI frameworks. The center has trained 3...Quality: 37/100
Organization Profiles Include
Section titled “Organization Profiles Include”- Mission and focus areas
- Key personnel and leadership
- Funding sources and budget
- Major publications and contributions
- Positions on key debates