The Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) is a UK-registered charity that funds and supports research to improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI systems for the benefit of humanity.

AI Alignment Awards is a prize contest program that awards up to $100,000 for novel research progress on core AI alignment problems. It is a project of the Players Philanthropy Fund, funded by Open Philanthropy.

Hofvarpnir Studios is a nonprofit that builds and maintains GPU compute clusters to support academic AI safety research. It provides high-performance computing infrastructure to researchers who would otherwise lack access to the resources needed to study and advance AI safety.

CEA builds and supports the global effective altruism community through conferences, online platforms, local group support, grantmaking, and community health programs, helping people use evidence and reason to address the world's most pressing problems.

Stop AGI is a project and website launched by Andrea Miotti in April 2023 to communicate the extinction risks of artificial general intelligence to the public and propose policy solutions to prevent its development.

A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that educates the public and policymakers about the risks of advanced AI and advocates for bipartisan safeguards.

A high-level international dialogue series that brings together leading AI scientists and governance experts to build consensus on managing extreme risks from frontier AI systems.

Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe's leading research universities, with significant AI safety and reliable AI research programs including the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI).

Czech national organization promoting effective altruism through community building, events, and project incubation, with a particular focus on AI safety and high-impact careers.

ML4Good runs intensive, fully-funded in-person bootcamps to train motivated people for careers in AI safety, covering both technical and governance tracks.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) is a University of Toronto research institute that convenes experts across disciplines to ensure that powerful technologies like AI are responsible, inclusive, and beneficial to everyone.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's collaborative media platform, which established a dedicated AI safety arm (HitRecord AI Safety Project LLC and AI Safety Digital Media Fund) to use storytelling and public engagement to address AI risks.

A Washington, DC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that conducts AI policy research, develops actionable legislative proposals, and educates U.S. policymakers on responsible innovation. It is the research and education arm of the Americans for Responsible Innovation family of organizations.

Reporting and analysis on capitalism, great power competition, and the race to build machine superintelligence by freelance journalist Garrison Lovely.

Rational Animations is a YouTube channel producing high-quality animated videos about AI safety, rationality, and effective altruism to reach mainstream audiences.

An independent research institute producing policy analysis on the social implications of artificial intelligence, with a focus on corporate power, labor, and public accountability.

Ergo Impact finds, funds, and scales promising people and solutions to the world's most pressing problems by providing ambitious philanthropists a rigorous, high-leverage approach to deploying capital at scale.

Boston University is a large private research university in Boston, Massachusetts with over 37,000 students, 17 schools and colleges, and more than $554 million in annual research expenditures. It hosts AI safety and alignment student programs and has received Open Philanthropy funding for AI safety-relevant research.

A research group at MIT CSAIL developing algorithmic frameworks, techniques, and policies to make AI systems safe and socially beneficial. Led by Associate Professor Dylan Hadfield-Menell.

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit that funds, accelerates, and advocates for AI alignment research by providing engineering teams, compute, and infrastructure to researchers pursuing neglected approaches.

A monthly newsletter curating and summarizing the most important AI safety research papers focused on frontier models, written by Johannes Gasteiger of Anthropic's Alignment Science team.

A UK nonprofit applying formal methods and machine learning to build open infrastructure for mathematically guaranteed AI safety assurance.

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is an AI research company founded by Ilya Sutskever focused solely on building safe superintelligence, with no other products or commercial distractions.

Astera's Neuro & AGI program is an in-house research effort that draws on neuroscience to develop safe and aligned artificial general intelligence, operating under the Astera Institute founded by Jed McCaleb.

Calling on policymakers to implement a global moratorium on large AI training runs until alignment is solved.

An AI security accelerator and research lab based in San Francisco that invests in and supports early-stage startups building infrastructure for safe AGI deployment.

A curated online hub for researchers to discuss technical AI alignment research, operated by Lightcone Infrastructure. It serves as the primary venue for sharing and coordinating cutting-edge alignment ideas across organizations including MIRI, OpenAI, DeepMind, CHAI, and others.

Georgetown University think tank providing decision-makers with data-driven analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies.

Purdue University is a major public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, whose computer science department has received AI safety funding for research on language model robustness and adversarial deception detection.

A research project that investigates decision-relevant questions about the future of artificial intelligence, including AI timelines, expert forecasts, and the potential societal impacts of advanced AI systems.

A nonprofit creating crowdsourced datasets of prosocial behaviors to train ethical AI systems, and building the Creed.Space platform for personalized constitutional AI alignment.

A foresight and emergency response nonprofit that monitors global catastrophic risks using AI-augmented analysis and expert forecasters, publishing weekly risk briefings and maintaining a reserve team for rapid crisis response.

A major public research university and Minnesota's only land-grant institution, home to AI and NLP research relevant to AI safety including benchmarking of LLM capabilities on high-stakes professional tasks.

Gradient Institute is an independent Australian nonprofit research organisation advancing safe and responsible AI through rigorous science-based research, practical guidance, and policy engagement.

A Norwegian non-profit think tank working to make policymaking more long-term, with a focus on AI governance, pandemic preparedness, biotechnology risks, and institutional reforms to represent future generations.

TechCongress places computer scientists, engineers, and other technologists in Congressional offices and federal agencies as year-long policy fellows, building technical expertise within the legislative branch.

Halcyon Futures is a nonprofit incubator and grant fund that identifies exceptional leaders and helps them launch ambitious new organizations focused on AI safety and global resilience.

A cross-institutional AI safety research collaboration between Zhijing Jin's Jinesis AI Lab at the University of Toronto and Rada Mihalcea's Language and Information Technologies (LIT) Lab at the University of Michigan, focused on multi-agent LLM safety, causal reasoning, and AI alignment.

Mindstream Project operates the Buddhism & AI Initiative, a collaborative effort to bring together Buddhist communities, technologists, and contemplative researchers to help shape the future of artificial intelligence.

The Ada Lovelace Institute is an independent UK research institute working to ensure that data and AI work for people and society, with a focus on equitable benefit distribution and public interest governance.

Impact Ops is an operations consultancy that delivers specialist finance, recruitment, entity setup, and systems support to high-impact nonprofits, helping them scale and flourish.

A cross-institutional Australian research collective focused on multi-objective reinforcement learning approaches to AI safety and alignment, with researchers at Federation University, Deakin University, and UNSW.

Harvard University is a leading private research university with several prominent programs advancing AI safety, AI governance, and AI interpretability research, including the Kempner Institute, Berkman Klein Center, and Harvard AI Safety Team.

Effective Altruism Israel is a Tel Aviv-based nonprofit that builds and supports the Israeli effective altruism community, helping people maximize their social impact through career guidance, education, and effective giving programs.

Touro is a large private Jewish university system headquartered in New York City, operating over 38 schools across the US and internationally. It received an Open Philanthropy grant to support Professor Gabriel Weil's legal research on using tort liability to mitigate catastrophic AI risks.

A technical advisory body within Australia's Department of Industry, Science and Resources that monitors, tests, and shares information on emerging AI risks and harms. It was announced in November 2025 and became operational in early 2026.

ARIA is a UK government research funding agency that backs high-risk, high-reward R&D in underexplored areas, including a major £59 million programme on formal mathematical safety guarantees for AI systems.

An interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge dedicated to studying and mitigating existential and global catastrophic risks, with major focus areas in AI safety, biological risks, and environmental risks.

ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) is one of the world's leading technical universities, hosting several prominent AI safety and security research groups including the SPY Lab and SRI Lab.