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 2026-09-21; 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
AI Security Institute 41 Sophie Aujard, Amos Wittenberg, Daniel Bromley, Zo Ahmed, Rory Gillis, Brendan McGrath, Lynn Tan, Ed Fage, Nadine Staes-Polet, Bea Egido, Maja Kolomaznikova, Sophie Wise, Jonas Lockett Klein, Joshua Mulvihill, Georgiana Gilgallon, Jamie-Day Rawal, Rani Martin, Abby D'Cruz, Melissa Hinkley, Clíodhna Ní Ghuidhir, Sangeetha V., Jessica Wang, James Walpole, Rebecca Anselmetti, Liya Jin, Bessie O'Dell, Daisy Newbold-Harrop, Sarah J., James Brown, Callum I., James Hawkes, Alice Poorta, Edward Foley, Benjamin A. R. Hilton, Jai Patel, Brigit Goebelbecker, Lena Hoffmann, Ivo Andrews, Dominykas Broga, Jacob Arbeid, James Burn
Convergence Analysis 11 Kristian Rönn, Corin Katzke, Mike Keough, Zershaaneh Qureshi, David Kristoffersson, Tee Barnett, Andrew X Stewart, Justin Shovelain, Nevin Freeman, Ben Harack, Ozzie Gooen
Fathom 9 Graeme Finley, Alexis Sacasas, Adam Edgerton, Jamie Chou, Hugh Wyman H., Andrew Freedman, Bri Treece, Jamie Van Leeuwen, Kay Firth-Butterfield
EleutherAI 4 Stella Biderman, Emad Mostaque, Connor Leahy, Colin Raffel
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence 3 Henry Shevlin, Jonnie Penn, Huw Price
The Israeli Association for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence 3 Tim Kogan, Roman Gold, Gadi Isaev
Cape Institute for Safe AI 2 Benjamin Sturgeon, Leo Hyams
Heron AI Security 2 Eli Parkes, Ezra Hausdorff
Athena 1 Claire Short
Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 1 Steven Umbrello