Information for Alignment Research Center

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Basic information

Item Value
Other names ARC
Country United States
Website https://www.alignment.org/
Team page https://www.alignment.org/theory/
Launch date 2021-04-01
Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_Research_Center
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2024-10-09
Source [1]
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2021 1 Paul Christiano
2022 5 Aryan Bhatt, Paul Christiano Josh Jacobson, Lawrence Chan, Timothy Kokotajlo
2023 11 Aryan Bhatt, Aryan Bhatt, Paul Christiano Josh Jacobson, Lawrence Chan, Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Quentin Feuillade-Montixi, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Timothy Kokotajlo
2024 7 Paul Christiano Lawrence Chan, Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Timothy Kokotajlo
2025 7 Paul Christiano Lawrence Chan, Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Timothy Kokotajlo

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2022-01-01 1 Paul Christiano
2023-01-01 5 Aryan Bhatt, Josh Jacobson, Lawrence Chan, Paul Christiano, Timothy Kokotajlo
2024-01-01 7 Lawrence Chan, Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Paul Christiano, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Timothy Kokotajlo
2025-01-01 7 Lawrence Chan, Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Paul Christiano, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Timothy Kokotajlo

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
14 14 0 Ben Hoskin, Buck Shlegeris, Dávid Matolcsi, Eric Neyman, George Robinson, Jacob Hilton, Jacob Hilton, Kris Chari, Kyle Scott, Kyle Scott, Kyle Scott, Mark Xu, Paul Christiano, Victor Lecomte
2021-04-26 15 1 0 Paul Christiano
2022-09-01 16 1 0 Josh Jacobson
2022-10-01 17 1 0 Timothy Kokotajlo
2022-11-01 19 2 0 Aryan Bhatt, Lawrence Chan
2023-02-01 18 0 -1 Aryan Bhatt
2023-03-01 21 3 0 Luke Miles, Megan Kinniment, Quentin Feuillade-Montixi
2023-08-01 20 1 -2 Aryan Bhatt Josh Jacobson, Quentin Feuillade-Montixi
2023-09-12 22 2 0 Rae She, Rebecca Baron
2023-11-01 21 0 -1 Aryan Bhatt

List of people (25 positions)

Person Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes
Mark Xu Research staff member full-time [2]
Jacob Hilton Research staff member full-time [3]
Eric Neyman Research staff member full-time [4]
Dávid Matolcsi Research staff member full-time [5]
Victor Lecomte Research staff member full-time [6]
George Robinson Research staff member full-time [7]
Kyle Scott Operations staff member full-time [8]
Kris Chari Operations staff member full-time [9]
Rebecca Baron Operations staff member 2023-09-12 full-time [10], [11]
Paul Christiano Founder full-time [12]
Jacob Hilton President full-time [3]
Kyle Scott Treasurer full-time [8]
Kyle Scott Secretary full-time [8]
Buck Shlegeris Board Member full-time [13]
Ben Hoskin Board Member full-time [14]
Josh Jacobson Interim Operations Lead (Evals), Formerly Interim Operations Lead (Theory) 2022-09-01 2023-08-01 contractor [15]
Lawrence Chan Member of Technical Staff 2022-11-01 full-time [16], [17], [10]
Megan Kinniment Member of Technical Staff 2023-03-01 full-time [17], [18]
Luke Miles Member of Technical Staff 2023-03-01 [17], [10]
Paul Christiano Researcher 2021-04-26 [19], [20], [21]
Rae She Executive Assistant 2023-09-12 [10], [10]
Timothy Kokotajlo Contractor 2022-10-01 contractor [22]
Aryan Bhatt SERI MATS Research Scholar 2022-11-01 2023-02-01 full-time [23]
Aryan Bhatt Visiting Researcher 2023-08-01 2023-11-01 full-time [23]
Quentin Feuillade-Montixi Model Evaluator 2023-03-01 2023-08-01 contractor [24] Remote work with the ARC eval team. Skilled in prompt engineering

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