AI Watch

Welcome! This is a website to track people and organizations working on AI safety. 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).

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Last updated on 2023-09-07; see here for a full list of recent changes.

Table of contents

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

Positions grouped by person

Showing 21 people with positions.

Name Number of organizations List of organizations
Paul Christiano 5 AI Impacts, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, OpenAI, Ought, Theiss Research
Oliver Habryka 3 Center for Applied Rationality, Lightcone Infrastructure, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Ryan Carey 3 Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Ought
Andrew Critch 2 Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Ben Weinstein-Raun 2 Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Ought
Beth Barnes 2 Center for Human-Compatible AI, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Chris Maddison 2 Google DeepMind, University of Oxford
Connor Flexman 2 AI Impacts, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Dmitrii Krasheninnikov 2 Center for Human-Compatible AI, University of Amsterdam
Eric Rogstad 2 Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Lightcone Infrastructure
Jaan Tallinn 2 Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Jeremy Schlatter 2 Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Johannes Heidecke 2 AI Safety Camp, Road to AI Safety Excellence
Kaj Sotala 2 Foundational Research Institute, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Matthew Graves 2 Lightcone Infrastructure, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Nick Bostrom 2 Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Remmelt Ellen 2 AI Safety Camp, Road to AI Safety Excellence
Robert Mushkatblat 2 Lightcone Infrastructure, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Sam Clarke 2 Future of Humanity Institute, The Future Society
Stuart Russell 2 Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Tom McGrath 2 Future of Humanity Institute, Ought

Positions grouped by organization

Showing 37 organizations.

Organization Number of people List of people
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 140 James Payor, Edward Kmett, Victoria Krakovna, Carson Jones, Linda Linsefors, Evan Hubinger, David Simmons, Daniel Demski, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Alex Zhu, Alex Mennen, Alex Appel, Buck Shlegeris, Nick Tarleton, Blake Borgeson, Kurt Brown, Jesse Liptrap, Sam Eisenstat, Benjamin Mann, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, Jeremy Schlatter, Jan Leike, Andrew Critch, Matthew Graves, Ryan Carey, Connor Flexman, Colm Ó Riain, Aaron Silverbook, Malo Bourgon, Gary Drescher, Robin Hanson, Kaya Stechly, Andrew Lapinski-Barker, Anna Salamon, Stuart Russell, Ramana Kumar, Jed McCaleb, Jack Gallagher, Jaan Tallinn, Bart Selman, Vanessa Kosoy, Stuart Armstrong, Nate Thomas, Abram Demski, Scott Garrabrant, Rob Bensinger, Jessica Taylor, Jake Moskowitz, Jesse Galef, Matthew Fallshaw, Peter Thiel, Liron Shapira, Christine Peterson, Nicolas Gagné, Elizabeth Morningstar, Antonius Lourenço Kasbergen, Lila Rieber, Vipul Naik, Nate Soares, Daniel Lewis, Richard Neal, Robert Mushkatblat, Dávid Natingga, Steve Omohundro, Roman Yampolskiy, Nick Bostrom, Nathan Clark, Moshe Looks, Kaj Sotala, Sebastian Nickel, Evan Erickson, Oliver Habryka, Paul Christiano, Patrick LaVictoire, Nisan Stiennon, Mihaly Barasz, Jeremy Miller, Bill Hibbard, Benya Fallenstein, Alex Altair, Stephen Barnes, Louie Helm, Patrick Robotham, Daniel Roth, Pedro Chaves, Topher Brennan, Carl Shulman, Nickolai Leschov, Jonathan Wang, Cameron Taylor, Tomer Kagan, Jake Miller, Gwern Branwen, Erica Edelman, Alex Vermeer, Luke Muehlhauser, Lincoln Quirk, Nevin Freeman, Minda Myers, Keefe Roedersheimer, Diego Caleiro, Will Newsome, Peter Scheyer, Peter de Blanc, Jasen Murray, Thomas Colthurst, Stanislas Sochacki, Luke Grecki, Daniel Dewey, Abraham Wolk, Janos Kramar, Dennis Fan, Ben Hoskin, Tim Czech, Jason Levin, Frank Adamek, Amy Willey, Kevin Fischer, Ray Kurzweil, Ben Goertzel, Steve Rayhawk, Michael Anissimov, Harrison Willey, Michael Blume, Kemal Eren, Andrew Rettek, Thomas McCabe, Steven Kaas, Roko Mijic, Katja Grace, Justin Shovelain, Henrik Jonsson, Andriy Brodskyy, Andrew Hay, Vincent Fagot, Bryan Bishop, Alyssa Vance, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Marcello Herreshoff, Jeff Alexander
GoodAI 34 Karolína H., Ryan Camilleri, Jose Solorzano, Alex Angelini, Sarka Krejcova, Stephanie Wendler, Reham Bukhari, Viktorie Knezkova, Steffen Eichler, Petr Šimánek, Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Petr Šrámek, Michal Dvořák, Christine Lee, Will Millership, Lucie Krestova, Marek Havrda, Jan Feyereisl, Olga Afanasjeva, Martin Poliak, Marek Rosa, Simon Andersson, Přemek Paška, Jaroslav Vitku, Wendelin Boehmer, Šimon Šicko, Shantesh Patil, Petr Hlubuček, Nicholas Guttenberg, Lucia Šicková, Joseph Davidson, Jan Štafa, Filip Hauptfleisch, Dominik Čech
Ought 26 Ian McKenzie, Luke Stebbing, Justin Reppert, Aisha Aishwarya, Eli Lifland, Amanda Ngo, Aparna Ashok, Jungwon Byun, Chris Cundy, Girish Sastry, Neal Jean, Ryan Carey, Zac Kenton, Tom McGrath, Ben Weinstein-Raun, Ozzie Gooen, Milan Griffes, Zachary Miller, Ben Goldhaber, Ben West, Ben Rachbach, Noah Goodman, Paul Christiano, Owain Evans, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Andrew Schreiber
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 24 Adrian Weller, Sean Holden, Stephen Hawking, Tim Crane, Max Tegmark, Murray Shanahan, Dana Scott, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Alison Gopnik, David Chalmers, Nick Bostrom, Margaret Boden, Ryan Carey, Martina Kunz, Seth Baum, Beth Barnes, Yang Liu, Jaan Tallinn, Martin Rees, Huw Price, Haydn Belfield, Shahar Avin, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
AI Impacts 13 Daniel Kokotajlo, Asya Bergal, Ronja Lutz, Richard Korzekwa, Tegan McCaslin, Paul Christiano, Jimmy Rintjema, Ben Hoffman, Justis Mills, Connor Flexman, Finan Adamson, John Salvatier, Stephanie Zolayvar
Lightcone Infrastructure 11 Robert Mushkatblat, Rafe Kennedy, Jacob Lagerros, Ruben Bloom, Raymond Arnold, Matthew Graves, Harmanas Chopra, Eric Rogstad, Ben Albert Pace, Oliver Habryka, James Babcock
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative 10 Elizabeth Cooper, Sofia Davis-Fogel, Alex Flint, Josh Jacobson, Sam Bankman-Fried, Colleen Gleason, Jeremy Schlatter, Qiaochu Yuan, Eric Rogstad, Andrew Critch
OpenAI 10 Mor Katz, Sam McCandlish, Christopher Olah, Jeffrey Wu, Ethan Knight, Daniel Ziegler, Joshua Achiam, Geoffrey Irving, Paul Christiano, Dario Amodei
Road to AI Safety Excellence 8 Remmelt Ellen, Trent Fowler, Erik Istre, Rupert McCallum, Robert Miles, Johannes Heidecke, Veerle de Goederen, Toon Alfrink
AI Safety Camp 7 Remmelt Ellen, Jessica Cooper, Kristina Nemcova, Jirí Nadvorník, Anne Wissemann, Jan Kulveit, Johannes Heidecke
Future of Humanity Institute 6 Sam Clarke, Tom McGrath, Sören Mindermann, Tamay Besiroglu, Toby Ord, Anders Sandberg
Center for Applied Rationality 5 Xavier Prospero, Brienne Strohl, Luke Raskopf, Adom Hartell, Oliver Habryka
Foundational Research Institute 5 Brian Tomasik, Kaj Sotala, Caspar Oesterheld, Lukas Gloor, Tobias Baumann
EthicsNet 4 Aleksandra Orchowska, Remco Bloemen, Anish Mohammed, Nell Watson
Center for Human-Compatible AI 3 Christopher Cundy, Beth Barnes, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov
Google DeepMind 3 Vishal Maini, Pedro A. Ortega, Chris Maddison
AIDEUS 2 Sergey Rodionov, Alexey Potapov
Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent 2 Tamas Madl, Stan Franklin
University of Oxford 2 Ruth Fong, Chris Maddison
1 Angela P.
Australian National University 1 Jarryd Martin
Carnegie Mellon University 1 Noam Brown
Centre for Effective Altruism 1 Johannes Treutlein
ETH Zurich 1 Felix Berkenkamp
Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 1 Steven Umbrello
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 Jon Gauthier
Oregon State University 1 Thomas Dietterich
Phenomenological AI Safety Research Institute 1 G Gordon Worley III
Sorbonne University 1 Michaël Trazzi
Stanford University 1 Aditi Raghunathan
The Australian National University 1 Michael Cohen
The Consortium on the Landscape of AI Safety 1 Alexis Carlier
The Future Society 1 Sam Clarke
Theiss Research 1 Paul Christiano
University of Amsterdam 1 Dmitrii Krasheninnikov
University of California, Berkeley 1 Michael Janner
University of Toronto 1 Roger Grosse