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 2026-08-16; 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
Fund for Alignment Research 35 Rick Korzekwa, Nick Louie, Karolina Walęcik, Hale Guyer, Frances Lorenz, Yordanos Asmare, Vits Voronkov, Roman Coussement, Mark Nitzberg, Liz Ibarra, Kulraj Chavda, Kenya Scott, Helen Moser, Annie Lehman-Ludwig, Philip Quirke, Lindsay Murachver, Anastasiia Gaidashenko, Vael Gates, Taylor Boyle, Lilian Hughes, Jessica Lim, Isaac Levine, Edward Yee, Conor McGurk, Moritz von Knebel, Fynn Heide, Ben Goldhaber, Adam Gleave, Sawyer Bernath, Lawrence Chan, Karl Berzins, Hannah Betts, Scott Emmons, Ethan Perez, Claudia Shi
AI Security Institute 31 Sarah J., Matthew Hopkins, Linden Watts, Millie Carr, Rebecca Randle, Natalie Hacker, Sian McGrowder - MCIPD, Eden Packer, Sarah Costello, Tom Eade, Marion Richard, Gracie Green, Charlotte Pound, Georgia Stone, Adam Beaumont, Joanna Ruan, Ben Dewar-Powell, Libby Jones, Lizzy Ecart Chartered FCIPD, Lynn Tan, Konstantin Sietzy, Jonas Lockett Klein, Kate Matthews, Farah Chowdhury, Ben Sams, Evie Ridout, Peter Anstey, Shannon Yang, Jordan Holland, George M., James Walpole
GoodAI 30 Joseph Davidson, Šárka Krejčová, Shantesh Patil, Martin Poliak, Karolína H., Ryan Camilleri, Jose Solorzano, Alex Angelini, Dominik Čech, Reham Bukhari, Stephanie Wendler, Lucia Šicková, Šimon Šicko, Nicholas Guttenberg, Viktorie Knezkova, Steffen Eichler, Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Filip Hauptfleisch, Jan Štafa, Michal Dvořák, Christine Lee, Will Millership, Petr Hlubuček, Marek Havrda, Jan Feyereisl, Olga Afanasjeva, Marek Rosa, Simon Andersson, Přemek Paška, Jaroslav Vitku
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 6 Carson Jones, Kurt Brown, Aaron Silverbook, Jesse Galef, Elizabeth Morningstar, Erica Edelman
EleutherAI 4 Sebastian Majstorovic, Delta Hessler, Celia Ashbaugh, Alex Havrilla
Fathom 4 John Jacobs, MBA, PJ Amelia, Komal Trivedi, Erik Preston
Convergence Analysis 3 Mike Keough, Harry Day, Alexandra Johnson
Heron AI Security 2 Noa Blumenthal, Shanni Gurkevitch
Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience 1 Naham Shapiro
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative 1 Colleen Gleason
Center on Long-Term Risk 1 Max Daniel
EthicsNet 1 Aleksandra Orchowska
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute 1 Robert de Neufville
Humans in Control 1 Vael Gates
Institute for Technology and Humanity 1 Rachel Burgess
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence 1 Viviana Fascianella
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence & Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 1 Rachel Burgess