| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| YouTube username | @centerforaisafety2291 |
| Twitter username | @ai_risks |
| Website | https://www.safe.ai/ |
| Team page | https://safe.ai/about |
| Launch date | 2022-01-01 |
| Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org | 2025-11-18 |
| Donations List Website (data still preliminary) |
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).
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 | Thomas Woodside |
| 2023-01-01 | 16 | Aidan O'Gara, Anders Edson, Andy Zou, Corin Katzke, Dan Hendrycks, David Lambert, Madhav Malhotra, Michael Chen, Nathaniel Li, Oliver Zhang, Scott Emmons, Sidney Hough, Steven Basart, Suryansh Mehta, Thomas Woodside, Xuwang Yin |
| 2024-01-01 | 12 | Corin Katzke, Dan Hendrycks, David Lambert, Isabelle Barrass, Long Phan, Nathaniel Li, Oliver Zhang, Oliver Zhang, Rebecca Rothwell, Steven Basart, Suryansh Mehta, Xuwang Yin |
| 2025-01-01 | 8 | Corin Katzke, Dan Hendrycks, Long Phan, Mantas Mazeika, Nathaniel Li, Oliver Zhang, Steven Basart, Xuwang Yin |
| 2026-01-01 | 7 | Corin Katzke, Dan Hendrycks, Josue Estrada, Long Phan, Mantas Mazeika, Oliver Zhang, Steven Basart |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Thomas Woodside | |
| 2022-03-01 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Kevin Liu | |
| 2022-04-01 | 4 | 2 | 0 | Oliver Zhang, Rune Kvist | |
| 2022-05-01 | 5 | 1 | 0 | Steven Basart | |
| 2022-06-01 | 6 | 1 | 0 | Madhav Malhotra | |
| 2022-07-01 | 8 | 3 | -1 | Alex Pan, Anders Edson, Joshua Clymer | Kevin Liu |
| 2022-08-01 | 8 | 2 | -2 | Nathaniel Li, Thomas Woodside | Alex Pan, Thomas Woodside |
| 2022-08-13 | 13 | 5 | 0 | Andy Zou, Dan Hendrycks, Michael Chen, Scott Emmons, Sidney Hough | |
| 2022-09-01 | 15 | 2 | 0 | David Lambert, Max Kaufmann | |
| 2022-11-01 | 16 | 1 | 0 | Marc Carauleanu | |
| 2022-12-01 | 16 | 2 | -2 | Corin Katzke, Suryansh Mehta | Joshua Clymer, Marc Carauleanu |
| 2023-01-01 | 18 | 3 | -1 | Aidan O'Gara, Jun Shern Chan, Xuwang Yin | Max Kaufmann |
| 2023-02-01 | 19 | 1 | 0 | Ayham Al-Saffar | |
| 2023-03-01 | 20 | 2 | -1 | Long Phan, Steven Basart | Steven Basart |
| 2023-03-15 | 16 | 0 | -4 | Andy Zou, Michael Chen, Scott Emmons, Sidney Hough | |
| 2023-03-26 | 17 | 1 | 0 | David Bau | |
| 2023-04-01 | 18 | 1 | 0 | Zifan Wang | |
| 2023-05-01 | 19 | 3 | -2 | Isabelle Barrass, Nathaniel Li, Suryansh Mehta | Nathaniel Li, Suryansh Mehta |
| 2023-06-01 | 21 | 2 | 0 | Ayush Panda, Rebecca Rothwell | |
| 2023-07-01 | 22 | 1 | 0 | Oliver Zhang | |
| 2023-08-01 | 18 | 0 | -4 | Anders Edson, Ayham Al-Saffar, Ayush Panda, Thomas Woodside | |
| 2023-09-01 | 17 | 0 | -1 | Madhav Malhotra | |
| 2023-11-01 | 16 | 0 | -1 | Zifan Wang | |
| 2023-12-01 | 15 | 0 | -1 | Jun Shern Chan | |
| 2023-12-31 | 14 | 0 | -1 | David Bau | |
| 2024-01-01 | 13 | 0 | -1 | Aidan O'Gara | |
| 2024-03-01 | 12 | 0 | -1 | Oliver Zhang | |
| 2024-04-01 | 11 | 0 | -1 | Rebecca Rothwell | |
| 2024-04-30 | 10 | 0 | -1 | Corin Katzke | |
| 2024-05-01 | 11 | 1 | 0 | Corin Katzke | |
| 2024-06-01 | 11 | 1 | -1 | Suryansh Mehta | Suryansh Mehta |
| 2024-09-01 | 11 | 1 | -1 | Mantas Mazeika | David Lambert |
| 2024-11-01 | 11 | 1 | -1 | Oliver Zhang | Oliver Zhang |
| 2024-12-01 | 10 | 0 | -1 | Suryansh Mehta | |
| 2025-01-01 | 9 | 0 | -1 | Isabelle Barrass | |
| 2025-01-31 | 8 | 0 | -1 | Nathaniel Li | |
| 2025-02-01 | 9 | 1 | 0 | Josue Estrada | |
| 2025-04-01 | 8 | 0 | -1 | Xuwang Yin |
| Person | Title | Start date | End date | AI safety relation | Subject | Employment type | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Hendrycks | Executive and Research Director | 2022-08-13 | [1], [2], [3] | |||||
| Oliver Zhang | Managing Director | 2024-11-01 | full-time | [2], [4] | ||||
| Josue Estrada | Chief Operating Officer | 2025-02-01 | full-time | [5], [2] | ||||
| Corin Katzke | Lead Writer | 2024-05-01 | part-time | [6] | ||||
| Long Phan | Research Engineer | 2023-03-01 | full-time | [7] | ||||
| Mantas Mazeika | Research Scientist | 2024-09-01 | full-time | [8] | ||||
| Rune Kvist | Board Member | 2022-04-01 | board member | [9] | ||||
| Steven Basart | Manager of Research and Development | 2023-03-01 | full-time | [10] | ||||
| Oliver Zhang | Chief of Staff | 2023-07-01 | 2024-11-01 | full-time | [4] | |||
| Oliver Zhang | Co-founder and Project Manager | 2022-04-01 | 2024-03-01 | full-time | [4] | |||
| Aidan O'Gara | Research Engineer | 2023-01-01 | 2024-01-01 | intern | [11] | |||
| Anders Edson | Project Manager | 2022-07-01 | 2023-08-01 | full-time | [12], [1] | |||
| Thomas Woodside | Researcher & Project Manager | 2022-01-01 | 2022-08-01 | full-time | [1], [13] | At the newly established Center for AI Safety, he was the first employee and spent full time working on research and managing projects. Some of his responsibilities included co-writing the Pragmatic AI Safety research agenda, overseeing the Machine Learning Safety Scholars program, and managing communications. He would be continuing with these duties on a part-time basis starting in mid-August 2022. | ||
| Suryansh Mehta | AI Policy Advisor | 2024-06-01 | 2024-12-01 | contractor | [14] | Occasional work with Dan Hendrycks on urgent national-security AI projects; freelance role. | ||
| Suryansh Mehta | Writer, Editor, and Manager | 2023-05-01 | 2024-06-01 | full-time | [14] | Managed 3–5 reports; delivered projects; edited 500+ pages of the textbook "Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society". | ||
| Suryansh Mehta | Technical Writer | 2022-12-01 | 2023-05-01 | full-time | [14] | Full-time contracting while completing graduate degree; contributed to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society textbook. | ||
| Joshua Clymer | Project Manager | 2022-07-01 | 2022-12-01 | [1], [15] | ||||
| Jun Shern Chan | Research Intern | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-01 | intern | [1], [16], [17] | |||
| Alex Pan | Research Intern | 2022-07-01 | 2022-08-01 | intern | [18] | |||
| Ayush Panda | Teaching Assistant | 2023-06-01 | 2023-08-01 | part-time | [19] | |||
| Ayham Al-Saffar | AI Safety Research Course Facilitator | 2023-02-01 | 2023-08-01 | part-time | [20] | |||
| David Bau | Collaborator | 2023-03-26 | 2023-12-31 | [21], [22] | ||||
| David Lambert | Research and Writing Consultant | 2022-09-01 | 2024-09-01 | contractor | [23] | |||
| Isabelle Barrass | Project Manager | 2023-05-01 | 2025-01-01 | [24] | ||||
| Marc Carauleanu | Student Researcher | 2022-11-01 | 2022-12-01 | full-time | [25] | |||
| Madhav Malhotra | Teaching Assistant | 2022-06-01 | 2023-09-01 | [26] | Remote | |||
| Max Kaufmann | Research Assistant | 2022-09-01 | 2023-01-01 | full-time | [27] | Continuing work on adversarial robustness in the image classification setting. | ||
| Steven Basart | Research Engineer | 2022-05-01 | 2023-03-01 | full-time | [10], [1] | |||
| Thomas Woodside | Project Manager & Research Collaborator | 2022-08-01 | 2023-08-01 | part-time | [1], [13] | He would continue work part time while in school. Working on a research project involving Trojan detection in large language models. | ||
| Kevin Liu | Project Manager | 2022-03-01 | 2022-07-01 | [1], [28] | ||||
| Corin Katzke | Writer | 2022-12-01 | 2024-04-30 | contractor | [6] | Contributing writer for the AI Safety Newsletter; contributed to *An Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society*. Remote. Contract role. | ||
| Nathaniel Li | Research Engineer | 2023-05-01 | 2025-01-31 | full-time | [29] | Research co-lead on Humanity's Last Exam and WMDP; contributed to biosecurity evaluations for virology protocol troubleshooting. | ||
| Nathaniel Li | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022-08-01 | 2023-05-01 | [29] | ||||
| Rebecca Rothwell | Lead Editor | 2023-06-01 | 2024-04-01 | [30] | ||||
| Zifan Wang | Research Engineer | 2023-04-01 | 2023-11-01 | [31] | ||||
| Xuwang Yin | Research Engineer | 2023-01-01 | 2025-04-01 | intern | [32] | |||
| Sidney Hough | Project Manager | 2022-08-13 | 2023-03-15 | [1], [33] | ||||
| Andy Zou | Project Manager & Research Collaborator | 2022-08-13 | 2023-03-15 | [1], [33] | ||||
| Scott Emmons | Research Collaborator | 2022-08-13 | 2023-03-15 | [1], [33] | ||||
| Michael Chen | Research Collaborator | 2022-08-13 | 2023-03-15 | [1], [33] |
| Name | Creation date | Description |
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| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|
| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Affected agendas | Notes |
|---|
| Organization | Number of people in common | List of people in common |
|---|---|---|
| Longview Philanthropy | 3 | Dan Hendrycks, Aidan O'Gara, Suryansh Mehta |
| Center for Human-Compatible AI | 2 | Dan Hendrycks, Scott Emmons |
| Model Evaluation and Threat Research | 2 | Joshua Clymer, Michael Chen |
| Fund for Alignment Research | 2 | Jun Shern Chan, Scott Emmons |
| University of California, Berkeley | 1 | Dan Hendrycks |
| GiveWell | 1 | Dan Hendrycks |
| Center for Security and Emerging Technology | 1 | Thomas Woodside |
| Redwood Research | 1 | Joshua Clymer |
| FAR.AI | 1 | Scott Emmons |
| OpenAI | 1 | Michael Chen |