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PIBBSS

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OrgFellowship & TrainingField-Building

A nonprofit research organization that runs interdisciplinary fellowship and affiliate programs bringing researchers from complex systems sciences (neuroscience, ecology, economics, physics, and others) to work on AI safety and alignment research.

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Alignment Research Center

Team9
OrgTechnical AI SafetyResearch LabAlignment Theory

A nonprofit research organization focused on theoretical AI alignment research, developing formal mechanistic explanations of neural network behavior to ensure future ML systems are aligned with human interests.

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Topos Institute

Team19
OrgResearch LabFormal Verification

A nonprofit research institute applying category theory, topos theory, and type theory to develop mathematical foundations and open-source tools for collective sense-making, collaborative modeling, and shaping technology for public benefit.

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Center for AI Safety

Team25
OrgTechnical AI SafetyField-Building

A nonprofit research organization that works to reduce societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence through safety research, field-building, and advocacy.

Led byDan Hendrycks, Chloé Messdaghi, Gabriella G., and others
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ILINA Program

Team11
OrgFellowship & TrainingAI Governance

An African-led research program dedicated to building talent, generating impactful research, and shaping policy to advance AI safety, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Led byCecil Abungu, Daniel Wachira, Faith Gakii, and others
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University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy's Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab))

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OrgAcademic Institution

A university research lab at the University of Louisville directed by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, one of the founders of the field of AI safety, conducting research on the theoretical limits of AI controllability, AI containment, and cybersecurity.

Led byRoman V. Yampolskiy
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PauseAI

Team5
OrgPolicy AdvocacyFundraising

PauseAI is a global grassroots movement advocating for an immediate pause on the development of frontier AI systems until their safety can be demonstrated and they can be kept under democratic control.

Led byJoep Meindertsma, Maxime Fournes, Jan-Erik Vinje
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ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS)

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OrgFellowship & TrainingField-BuildingFundraising

MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars) is the largest AI safety research fellowship and talent pipeline, running intensive 12-week research programs that pair fellows with leading AI alignment mentors in Berkeley and London.

Led byChristian Smith, Ryan Kidd, Amir Nuriyev, and others
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Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST)

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OrgLegal AdvocacyPolicy AdvocacyBiosecurityFundraising

A nonprofit that uses legal advocacy, including amicus briefs, impact litigation, and policy engagement, to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems and biotechnology.

Led byAmy Labenz, Laurens Prins, Page Hedley, and others
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Center for Law and AI Risk

Team3
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankField-Building

CLAIR is building the field of Law and AI Safety, producing and promoting legal scholarship on reducing catastrophic and existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

Led byPeter N. Salib, Yonathan A. Arbel, Nicholas Felstead
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Impact Academy Limited

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OrgFellowship & TrainingField-Building

A nonprofit that runs fellowships and educational programs to develop expert, mission-aligned talent for AI safety research and governance.

Led byLowe Lundin, Roy Hagemann, Sebastian Schmidt, and others
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AI Lab Watch

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OrgAI GovernanceData Platform

A project that tracks and evaluates frontier AI companies on their safety practices through a weighted scorecard, focusing on actions labs should take to avert extreme risks from advanced AI.

Led byZach Stein-Perlman
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International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI)

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OrgAI GovernanceConference & Workshop

IASEAI is an independent nonprofit that works to ensure AI systems operate safely and ethically by shaping policy, promoting research, and building a global community around AI safety.

Led byAdam Etline, Amir Banifatemi, Charlie Pownall, and others
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Pour Demain

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OrgThink TankAI GovernanceBiosecurity

A Swiss non-profit think tank that develops evidence-based policy proposals on AI safety, biosecurity, and emerging technologies, bridging science, politics, and civil society for Switzerland and beyond.

Led byPatrick Stadler, Jimmy Farrell
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Orthogonal

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OrgAlignment TheoryResearch Lab

A non-profit AI alignment research organization focused on agent foundations, pursuing formal goal alignment approaches that would scale to superintelligence.

Led byTamsin Leake, Julia Persson
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The Future Society

Team7
OrgAI GovernanceThink TankPolicy Advocacy

A nonprofit organization based in the US and Europe that works to align AI through better governance, developing and advocating for AI governance mechanisms ranging from laws and regulations to voluntary frameworks.

Led byNick Moës, Simon Mueller Stansbury, Caroline Jeanmaire, and others
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Manifund

Team3
OrgFunderCoworking Space

A philanthropic platform and 501(c)(3) nonprofit that facilitates regranting, impact certificates, and crowdfunding for charitable projects, with a primary focus on AI safety and effective altruism cause areas.

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Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER)

Team4
OrgExistential RiskThink TankBiosecurity

An Israeli academic research and advocacy nonprofit focused on reducing catastrophic and existential risks through AI safety research, biosecurity policy, and standards development.

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Atlas Computing

Team3
OrgCompute GovernanceFormal VerificationField-Building

Atlas Computing is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that maps neglected AI safety risks, sources expert founders, and prototypes solutions to scale human control over advanced AI capabilities.

Led byBlake Borgeson, Evan Miyazono, Sara Horowitz, and others
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Carnegie Mellon University

Team8000
OrgAcademic InstitutionTechnical AI SafetyAI Security

Carnegie Mellon University is a leading private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, widely regarded as one of the world's top institutions for AI and computer science research. It hosts multiple AI safety and governance programs spanning technical research, policy, and applied AI security.

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SaferAI

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OrgTechnical AI SafetyStandards DevelopmentAI Governance

A French nonprofit that develops AI risk management frameworks, independently rates AI companies' safety practices, and contributes to international AI governance standards.

Led byHenry Papadatos, Siméon Campos, Cornelia Kutterer, LL.M., and others
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Encode

Team9
OrgPolicy Advocacy

Youth-led AI policy nonprofit that advances AI safety, governance, and accountability through nonpartisan legislative advocacy and public education, headquartered in Washington, DC.

Led byChibuzor Obih, Piyal Uddin, Wyatt Johnson
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Palisade Research

Team15
OrgAI Evals & Red-TeamingAI SecurityFundraising

Nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities and the controllability of frontier AI models to help humanity avoid permanent disempowerment by strategic AI agents.

Led byJeffrey Ladish, Benjamin Weinstein-Raun, David Kasten, and others
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Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)

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OrgThink TankAI GovernanceBiosecurity

The legal entity behind the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR), a UK-based independent think tank working to transform global resilience to extreme risks, particularly in AI safety and biosecurity.

Led byEleanor Hevey, Hatim Hussain, Luciana Alemanno-Frankson, and others
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AE Studio

Team150
OrgTechnical AI Safety

AE Studio is a bootstrapped technology studio and AI alignment research organization that funds neglected safety research from its software consulting profits. Their work spans brain-computer interfaces, self-other overlap fine-tuning to reduce LLM deception, and consciousness research.

Led byDoug Lorenzen, melanie plaza, Rafael Besen - Hiring Awesome People, and others
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Joshua Axford

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Individual

Co-founder and CEO of Impact Ops, leading its work on nonprofit operations; previously held senior operations leadership roles at Effective Ventures, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and the Marine Megafauna Foundation, and now advises the SparkWell accelerator and selected high-impact projects on compliance, governance, and hiring.

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Contramont Research

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OrgResearch LabAI SecurityAI Evals & Red-Teaming

Contramont Research is a nonprofit AI safety lab that studies where safety and security evaluation methods break down, using cryptographic model organisms to expose fundamental limitations of existing techniques.

Led byAndis Draguns, Andrew Gritsevskiy, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani
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Johns Hopkins University

Team9
OrgAcademic InstitutionTechnical AI SafetyRobustness & Adversarial ML

Johns Hopkins University hosts AI safety-relevant research led by Prof. Anqi (Angie) Liu, whose group focuses on machine learning for trustworthy AI, including distributionally robust learning and uncertainty quantification under distribution shift.

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Gregory Makoff

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Individual

Gregory Makoff has been a CIGI senior fellow since 2015 and is an expert on sovereign debt restructuring; he authored "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" and previously spent over two decades advising sovereign borrowers at Citigroup and served as a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Stephanie Psaki

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Individual

No summary available yet.

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Nabiha Syed

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Grantmaker

Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, where she leads strategic initiatives across programs, products, and grantmaking to build a better digital future, and former CEO of investigative journalism nonprofit The Markup; widely recognized for her work on digital civil rights and technology law.

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Kate McCallum

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Individual

Kate McCallum is an award-winning Los Angeles-based producer, writer, and transmedia consultant who founded and serves as executive director of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity. With over 40 years of experience in the creative industries, she works at the intersection of storytelling, immersive media, and future trends in arts and entertainment and chairs the Global Arts & Media Node of The Millennium Project.

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Lewis Bollard

TeamIndividual
Grantmaker

Lewis Bollard is Managing Director for Farm Animal Welfare at Coefficient Giving, where he leads the Farm Animal Welfare Fund. He joined the organization in 2015 as its first full-time staff member focused on farm animal welfare, writes the Coefficient Giving farm animal welfare Substack, and has recently appeared on the TED main stage and the Dwarkesh Podcast. Previously he worked at Bain & Company and Humane World for Animals, and he is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School.

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David Milestone

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Individual

No summary available yet.

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Audrey Bell

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IndividualManifund

No summary available yet.

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Funding to promote rationality and AI safety to medallists of IMO 2020 and EGMO 2019.

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Project

Funding to promote rationality and AI safety to medallists of IMO 2020 and EGMO 2019.

Led byMikhail Yagudin
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Lawrence Phillips

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Individual

Lawrence Phillips is the co-founder and CTO of FutureSearch. He holds a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc from Imperial College London, and previously led the AI team at Metaculus and held machine learning roles at Cambridge Consultants, GTN, Jawbone Health, and GSK.

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JJ Allaire

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IndividualManifund

No summary available yet.

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Neil Tanna

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Individual

No summary available yet.

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Robert M. Gates

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Individual

Robert M. Gates is a principal at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC and formerly served as the 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, the only defense secretary asked to remain in office by presidents from both parties. A career national security official, he previously served as Director of Central Intelligence and held senior roles on the National Security Council staff, and he now also serves as Chancellor of William & Mary.

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Kolja Verhage

TeamIndividual
Individual

No summary available yet.

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Mikhail Samin

TeamIndividual
IndividualManifund

Executive Director of the AI Governance and Safety Institute, working on educational materials and advertising campaigns that communicate existential risk from advanced AI to specific audiences. His public bio notes experience in machine learning, political campaigning, and having founded a startup that donated over $100,000 to effective nonprofits, as well as running large-scale outreach projects such as distributing Russian-language editions of HPMOR.

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Cornelia Kutterer, LL.M.

TeamIndividual
Individual

Cornelia Kutterer, LL.M., is a Senior Policy Fellow at SaferAI, where she advises the team on institutional engagement and AI governance research. She is Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer of Scrydon, an agentic AI startup, and previously spent many years at Microsoft leading European government affairs on responsible technology, rule of law, and competition policy. She also holds part-time roles as Adjunct Professor at UC Law San Francisco and Senior Research Fellow at the Multidisciplinary Institute in AI at the University of Grenoble, focusing on AI governance and regulation.

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Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Team4
OrgAI SecurityResearch LabFundraising

BIML is an independent nonprofit research institute focused on machine learning security, specifically the work of building security into ML systems at the design level.

Led byGary McGraw, Harold Figueroa, Katie McMahon, and others
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Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)

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ProjectManifund

Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models

Led byKrishna Patel
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Kyle Reynoso

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IndividualManifund

No summary available yet.

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Create an animated video essay explaining how AI could accelerate AI R&D and its implications for AI governance

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Project

Create an animated video essay explaining how AI could accelerate AI R&D and its implications for AI governance

Led byMichel Justen
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Ian Walker

TeamIndividual
Individual

No summary available yet.

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Michael F.

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Individual

No summary available yet.

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Kenneth Lou

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Individual

No summary available yet.

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