Information for Fund for Alignment Research

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Basic information

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Other names FAR
Country United States
Website https://far.ai/
Team page https://far.ai/
Launch date 2022-07-05
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2023-01-18

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
2022 13 Ian McKenzie, Ian McKenzie, Jérémy Scheurer, Jérémy Scheurer, Jun Shern Chan, Jun Shern Chan, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak, Tomasz Korbak Adam Gleave, Claudia Shi, Ethan Perez, Scott Emmons
2023 9 Ian McKenzie, Jérémy Scheurer, Jun Shern Chan, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak Adam Gleave, Claudia Shi, Ethan Perez, Scott Emmons
2024 9 Ian McKenzie, Jérémy Scheurer, Jun Shern Chan, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak Adam Gleave, Claudia Shi, Ethan Perez, Scott Emmons

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
2023-01-01 5 Ian McKenzie, Jérémy Scheurer, Jun Shern Chan, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak
2024-01-01 5 Ian McKenzie, Jérémy Scheurer, Jun Shern Chan, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak

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
2022-07-01 4 8 -4 Adam Gleave, Claudia Shi, Ethan Perez, Ian McKenzie, Jun Shern Chan, Jérémy Scheurer, Scott Emmons, Tomasz Korbak Ian McKenzie, Jun Shern Chan, Jérémy Scheurer, Tomasz Korbak
2022-07-04 9 5 0 Ian McKenzie, Jun Shern Chan, Jérémy Scheurer, Nora Belrose, Tomasz Korbak

List of people (13 positions)

Person Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes
Adam Gleave Board member 2022-07-01 board member [1], [2]
Claudia Shi Board member 2022-07-01 board member [1], [2]
Ethan Perez Board member 2022-07-01 board member [1], [2]
Ian McKenzie Collaborator 2022-07-01 2022-07-01 board member [1]
Ian McKenzie Technical Staff 2022-07-04 board member [2]
Jérémy Scheurer Collaborator 2022-07-01 2022-07-01 board member [1]
Jérémy Scheurer Technical Staff 2022-07-04 board member [2]
Jun Shern Chan Collaborator 2022-07-01 2022-07-01 board member [1]
Jun Shern Chan Technical Staff 2022-07-04 board member [2]
Nora Belrose Technical Staff 2022-07-04 board member [2]
Scott Emmons Board member 2022-07-01 board member [1], [2]
Tomasz Korbak Collaborator 2022-07-01 2022-07-01 board member [1]
Tomasz Korbak Technical Staff 2022-07-04 board member [2]

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