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 2024-11-02; 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

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Positions grouped by organization

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Organization Number of people List of people
GoodAI 32 Karolína H., Ryan Camilleri, Jose Solorzano, Alex Angelini, Dominik Čech, Sarka Krejcova, Stephanie Wendler, Reham Bukhari, Šimon Šicko, Lucia Šicková, Nicholas Guttenberg, Viktorie Knezkova, Steffen Eichler, Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Filip Hauptfleisch, Petr Sramek, Jan Štafa, Christine Lee, Michal Dvořák, Will Millership, Lucie Krestova, Marek Havrda, Jan Feyereisl, Olga Afanasjeva, Martin Poliak, Marek Rosa, Simon Andersson, Přemek Paška, Jaroslav Vitku, Joseph Davidson, Shantesh Patil, Petr Hlubuček
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 6 Carson Jones, Kurt Brown, Aaron Silverbook, Jesse Galef, Elizabeth Morningstar, Erica Edelman
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative 1 Colleen Gleason
EthicsNet 1 Aleksandra Orchowska
Foundational Research Institute 1 Max Daniel
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute 1 Robert de Neufville