AI Watch

Welcome! This is a website to track people and organizations in the AI safety/alignment/AI existential risk communities. A position or organization being on AI Watch does not indicate an assessment that that position or organization is actually making AI safer or that the position or organization is good for the world in any way. It is mostly a sociological indication that the position or organization is associated with these communities, as well as an indication that the position or organization claims to be working on AI safety or alignment. (There are some plans to eventually introduce such assessments on AI Watch, but for now there are none.) See the code repository for the source code and data of this website.

This website is developed by Issa Rice with data contributions from Sebastian Sanchez, Amana Rice, and Vipul Naik, and has been partially funded by Vipul Naik and Mati Roy (who in July 2023 paid for the time Issa had spent answering people’s questions about AI Watch up until that point).

Last updated on 2026-09-21; see here for a full list of recent changes.

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Agendas

Agenda name Associated people Associated organizations
Iterated amplification Paul Christiano, Buck Shlegeris, Dario Amodei OpenAI
Embedded agency Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Garrabrant, Abram Demski Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Comprehensive AI services Eric Drexler Future of Humanity Institute
Ambitious value learning Stuart Armstrong Future of Humanity Institute
Factored cognition Andreas Stuhlmüller Ought
Recursive reward modeling Jan Leike, David Krueger, Tom Everitt, Miljan Martic, Vishal Maini, Shane Legg Google DeepMind
Debate Paul Christiano OpenAI
Interpretability Christopher Olah
Inverse reinforcement learning
Preference learning
Cooperative inverse reinforcement learning
Imitation learning
Alignment for advanced machine learning systems Jessica Taylor, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Patrick LaVictoire, Andrew Critch Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Learning-theoretic AI alignment Vanessa Kosoy
Counterfactual reasoning Jacob Steinhardt

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OpenAI 330 Stefanie Biaggi, Bianca Martin, Meghan Dorn, Jessica Shieh, Joshua Achiam, Anna Makanju, Zico Kolter, Szymon Sidor, Hannah Wong, Michael Chen, CJ Minott, Jakub Pachocki, Diane Yoon, Rosie Campbell, Peter Hoeschele, Natalie Summers, Mike B., Tatiana Zolotova, Ryan Peterson, Christopher Berner, Todor Markov, Yasuyoshi Sakamoto, Shuyuan Zhang, Mada Aflak, Laura W., Evan Weiss, Mati Roy, Weiyi Zheng, Uğurcan Türkdoğan, Stewart Hall, Siyuan Fu, Ollie Jaffe, Kleanthes K., Amber Yore, Tiffany C., Thomas Dimson, Peter Welinder, Pedram Keyani, Mo Bavarian, John Rizzo, Francis Z., Enoch Cheung, Adam Goldberg, Wei An Lee, Ofir Nachum, Ilan Bigio, Allan J., Noam Brown, Will Saborio, Erica T., Eric Rynerson, David Carr, Daniel Kappler, Anton Tananaev, Andrei Alexandru, Srinivas Narayanan, Elie Georges, Jacy Reese Anthis, Cory Decareaux, Brydon Eastman, Ali Kamali, Tarun Gogineni, David Medina, David Hengky, Tianhao Zheng, Michelle Pokrass, Adam Perelman, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Hossem Ben Ayed, Mira Murati, Brad Lightcap, Yaniv Markovski, Steven Bills, Vishal Kuo, Jerry Tworek, Daniel Levy (this list is partial)
EleutherAI 54 Catherine Arnett, Louis Jaburi, Hailey Schoelkopf, David Johnston, Sebastian Majstorovic, Adam Scherlis, Lucia Quirke, Gonçalo Paulo, Naomi Saphra, Aran Komatsuzaki, Logan Riggs, Ingyu Seong, Stella Biderman, Bo Peng, Annette Chivers, Natalie Chivers, Jacob Hatef, Zhangir Azerbayev, Eugene Cheah, Jason Phang, Nora Belrose, Dashiell Stander, Lintang Sutawika, Curt Tigges, Brennan Dury, Honglu Fan, Delta Hessler, Alex Mallen, Oskar van der Wal, Justice Edgell, Celia Ashbaugh, Katherine Crowson, Emad Mostaque, Duy Phung, Aviya Skowron, USVSN Sai Prashanth, Shahbuland Matiana, Joel Lehman, Alex Havrilla, Nathan Cooper, Herbie Bradley, Quentin Anthony, Reshinth Adithyan, Erfan Al-Hossami, Louis Castricato, Shivanshu Purohit, Curtis Huebner, Connor Leahy, Colin Raffel, Aman Tiwari, Jon Tow, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Eric Alcaide, Mohammad Aflah Khan
Flowers Laboratory 39 Alvaro Ovalle Castaneda, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Stéphanie Noirpoudre, Loïc Dauphin, Florian Golemo, Sébastien Forestier, William Schueller, Cem Karaoguz, Nicolas Rabault, Matthieu Lapeyre, Pierre Rouanet, Nicolas Jahier, Didier Roy, Alexandre Gepperth, Adrien Matricon, Céline Craye, Alexandra Delmas, Gennaro Raiola, Baptiste Busch, Panagiotis Papadakis, Yoan Mollard, Thibaut Munzer, Freek Stulp, Thomas Degris, Jonathan Grizou, Guillaume Duceux, Louis-Charles Caron, Manuel Lopes, Olivier Mangin, Natalia Lyubova, Olivier Ly, Fabien Benureau, Paul Fudal, Thomas Cederborg, Adrien Baranes, Jérome Béchu, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Damien Caselli, Théo Segonds
Whole Brain Architecture Initiative 9 Koji Morikawa, Hideyuki Nakashima, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Masaru Tomita, Kitano Hiroaki, Kenji Doya, Koichi Takahashi, Yutaka Matsuo, Hiroshi Yamakawa
Google Brain 1 Jeremy Nixon
Google DeepMind 1 Miljan Martic