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 2026-11-03; 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 Meghan Dorn, Joshua Achiam, Zico Kolter, Stefanie Biaggi, Lilian Weng, Michael Chen, Rosie Campbell, Bianca Martin, Mike B., Yasuyoshi Sakamoto, Shuyuan Zhang, Mada Aflak, Laura W., Evan Weiss, Weiyi Zheng, Uğurcan Türkdoğan, Stewart Hall, Siyuan Fu, Ollie Jaffe, Kleanthes K., Amber Yore, Austin Wiseman, Mati Roy, Tiffany C., Thomas Dimson, Pedram Keyani, Mo Bavarian, John Rizzo, Francis Z., Enoch Cheung, Adam Goldberg, Wei An Lee, Ofir Nachum, Ilan Bigio, Allan J., Dave Willner, CJ Minott, Noam Brown, Will Saborio, Erica T., Eric Rynerson, Hannah Wong, Anna Makanju, David Carr, Daniel Kappler, Anton Tananaev, Srinivas Narayanan, Andrei Alexandru, Jacy Reese Anthis, Brydon Eastman, Ali Kamali, Tarun Gogineni, David Medina, David Hengky, Tianhao Zheng, Michelle Pokrass, Adam Perelman, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Hossem Ben Ayed, Brad Lightcap, Cory Decareaux, Vishal Kuo, Jerry Tworek, Daniel Levy, Akila Welihinda, Yaniv Markovski, Steven Bills, Steven Adler, Eugene Wu, Janine Korovesis, Adam Nace, Jessica Shieh, Chester Cho, Daniel Kokotajlo, Oleg Mürk, Bogo Giertler , Adam Rhodes (this list is partial)
EleutherAI 54 Catherine Arnett, Louis Jaburi, Adam Scherlis, Lucia Quirke, Sebastian Majstorovic, David Johnston, Ingyu Seong, Naomi Saphra, Logan Riggs, Bo Peng, Jason Phang, Eugene Cheah, Zhangir Azerbayev, Jacob Hatef, Natalie Chivers, Annette Chivers, Gonçalo Paulo, Oskar van der Wal, Alex Mallen, Delta Hessler, Honglu Fan, Justice Edgell, Brennan Dury, Aran Komatsuzaki, Nora Belrose, Celia Ashbaugh, Emad Mostaque, Katherine Crowson, Colin Raffel, Connor Leahy, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Jon Tow, Aman Tiwari, Curt Tigges, Lintang Sutawika, Dashiell Stander, Aviya Skowron, Hailey Schoelkopf, USVSN Sai Prashanth, Duy Phung, Shahbuland Matiana, Joel Lehman, Alex Havrilla, Nathan Cooper, Herbie Bradley, Quentin Anthony, Reshinth Adithyan, Erfan Al-Hossami, Louis Castricato, Shivanshu Purohit, Curtis Huebner, Stella Biderman, 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
AI Impacts 22 Caitlin Elizondo, Jeffrey Heninger, Harlan Stewart, Aysja Johnson, Zach Stein-Perlman, Elizabeth Santos, Asya Bergal, Daniel Kokotajlo, Rick Korzekwa, Tegan McCaslin, Jimmy Rintjema, Justis Mills, Connor Flexman, Finan Adamson, Michael Wulfsohn, John Salvatier, Paul Christiano, Katja Grace, Ronny Fernandez, Ronja Lutz, Stephanie Zolayvar, Ben Hoffman
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
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 1 Eliezer Yudkowsky