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 2026-08-06; 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, Stefanie Biaggi, Zico Kolter, Lilian Weng, CJ Minott, Michael Chen, Rosie Campbell, Peter Hoeschele, Mike B., Christopher Berner, Todor Markov, Shuyuan Zhang, Mada Aflak, Laura W., Evan Weiss, Yasuyoshi Sakamoto, Stewart Hall, Siyuan Fu, Ollie Jaffe, Kleanthes K., Amber Yore, Austin Wiseman, Mati Roy, Weiyi Zheng, Uğurcan Türkdoğan, Pedram Keyani, John Rizzo, Francis Z., Enoch Cheung, Tiffany C., Thomas Dimson, Ofir Nachum, Ilan Bigio, Allan J., Wei An Lee, Erica T., Eric Rynerson, Noam Brown, Will Saborio, Hannah Wong, Lucas Negritto, David Carr, Daniel Kappler, Anton Tananaev, Srinivas Narayanan, Andrei Alexandru, Cory Decareaux, Brydon Eastman, Ali Kamali, Jacy Reese Anthis, Tarun Gogineni, David Medina, David Hengky, Michelle Pokrass, Tianhao Zheng, Adam Perelman, Bram Adams, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Hossem Ben Ayed, Mira Murati, Daniel Levy, Akila Welihinda, Yaniv Markovski, Steven Bills, Steven Adler, Vishal Kuo, Chester Cho, Adam Nace, Eugene Wu, Jessica Shieh, Oleg Mürk, Bogo Giertler , Daniel Kokotajlo, Tatiana Zolotova, Sully Chen, Ryan Peterson, Trapit Bansal, Davit Khachatryan, Helen Toner, Juston Forte, Joanne Jang, Chaitra A., Arun Vijayvergiya, Angela Jiang, Preston Tuggle, Dave Willner, Atqiya Abida Anjum, Rob Mallery, Adam Goldberg, Rajeev Nayak, Lama Ahmad, Matthew Gentzel, Sarah Shoker, Carroll Wainwright, Anna Makanju, Richard Ngo, Victor Benito Garcia Rocha, Angie Luo, Vitchyr Pong, Elie Georges, Lukasz Kaiser, Lisa Dethridge, Isabel Alves de Lima, Vlad Ursu, Johannes H., Sarthak Agrawal, Radhika Mathur, Kyle Kosic, Jason Kwon, Emanuele Marchiori, Tabarak Khan, Natalie Summers, Jakub Pachocki, Nicolas Norberto Corizzo, Jesse Han, Ishant Singh, Bob Rotsted, Giambattista Parascandolo, Che Chang, Zack Kass, Evan Morikawa, Miles Brundage, Tyna Eloundou, Diane Yoon, Jonathan Gordon, Maddie Simens, Suchir Balaji, Peter Welinder, Philippe Tillet, Julián Santoro, Adam Rhodes, Phuong Vu, Theresa Lopez, Mo Bavarian, Fotios Chantzis, Dave Cummings, Joel Lehman, Denny Jin, Raul Puri, Joost Huizinga, Red A., Emy Parparita, Kelly Sims, Tim Yanchen Wang, Arvind Neelakantan, Rachel Lim, Jeff Clune, Shivon Zilis, Fraser Kelton, Jian O., Aris Konstantinidis, Roger Xu Jiang, Tao Xu, Nikolas Tezak, Stanislas Polu, Gretchen M. Krueger, Mario Saltarelli, Girish Sastry, Cullen O"Keefe, Luke Miller, Benjamin Mann, Long Ouyang, Ife Riamah, Frances Choi, Karson Elmgren, Ilge Akkaya, Jerry Tworek, Alex Paino, Szymon Sidor, Janet Brown, Elynn Chen, Danny Hernandez, Edgar Barraza, Jonathan Michaux, Maxim Sokolov, Fatma Tarlaci, Christina Hendrickson, Yuhao Wan, Nancy Otero, Katie Mayer, Bianca Martin, Ben Chess, Qiming Yuan, Mateusz Litwin, Tom Brown, Janine Korovesis, Clemens Winter, Amanda Askell, Mikhail Pavlov, Lei Zhang, Jacob Hilton, Justin Wang, Daniela Amodei, Ian Atha, Taehoon Kim, Maddie Hall, Jacob Jackson, Matt Mochary, Michał Staniszewski, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Brad Lightcap, Arthur Petron, Gillian Hadfield, Nadja Rhodes, Munashe Shumba, Sophia Arakelyan, Karl Cobbe, Joshua Meier, Xingyou (Richard) Song, Holly Grimm, Hannah Davis, Ifu Aniemeka, Yilun Du, Johannes Otterbach, Will Rice, Christine McLeavey Payne, Michael Petrov, Susan Zhang, Hanjun Dai, Aravind Srinivas, Sam McCandlish, Erin Grant, Sadhika Malladi, Will Grathwohl, Peter Zhokhov, Thomas Anthony, Henrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto, Aleksandar Botev, Elena Chatziathanasiadou, Manuel Sherbakoff, Rewon Child, Julia Galef, Parnian Barekatain, Kevin Wong, Kaleo Hao, Glenn Powell, Ryan Carey, David Farhi, Adam Smets, Christy Dennison, Ashley C. Pilipiszyn, Remco Zwetsloot, Naomi Bashkansky, Mathew Shrwed, Lucy Qin, David Luan, Maciej Chociej, Jonathan Ward, Jonathan Raiman, Nikhil Mishra, Larissa Schiavo, Karthik Narasimhan, Bowen Baker, Alex Nichol, Phillip Isola, Joshua Achiam, Yuping Luo, Brooke Chan, Jiaming Song, AlShaun Baksh, Christos Louizos, Cathy Wu, Aditya Grover, Xue Bin Peng, Han Zhang, Dustin Tran, Jason Peng, Yang Liu, Art Chaidarun, Matthias Plappert, David Lansky, Rein Houthooft, Aleks Kamko, Yaroslav Bulatov, Tim Shi, Danielle Buma, Michael Page, Bob McGrew, Shariq Hashme, Erika Reinhardt, Richard Chen, Jonathan Ho, Taco Cohen, Filip Wolski, Jeremy Schlatter, Louise Cabansay, Jonathan Hernandez, Jack Clark, Harri Edwards, Marie La, Desmond Henderson, Tambet Matiisen, Ludwig Pettersson, Marika Allely, Igor Mordatch, Yuri Burda, Catherine Olsson, Scott Gray, Craig Quiter, Zain Shah, Tyler Neylon, Linxi Fan, Kate Miltenberger, Jon Gauthier, Rafał Józefowicz, Pieter Abbeel, Paul Christiano, Jie Tang, Marcin Andrychowicz, Peter Chen, Tim Salimans, Jim Fan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Eric Price, Jeff Arnold, Jonas Schneider, Alec Radford, Ian Goodfellow, Chris Clark, Rocky Duan, Trevor Blackwell, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, Wojciech Zaremba, Vicki Cheung, Matt Krisiloff, John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Durk Kingma, Jonathan Gray
EleutherAI 54 Catherine Arnett, Louis Jaburi, Adam Scherlis, Lucia Quirke, Sebastian Majstorovic, David Johnston, Stella Biderman, 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, Dashiell Stander, Aran Komatsuzaki, Nora Belrose, Celia Ashbaugh, Katherine Crowson, Emad Mostaque, 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, Colin Raffel, Connor Leahy, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Jon Tow, Aman Tiwari, Curt Tigges, Lintang Sutawika, 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