AI-Plans

AI-Plans (ai-plans.com / aiplans.org) is a small AI alignment research and events platform founded in early 2023 by Kabir Kumar, based in Chelmsford, UK. The project began as a contributable compendium of AI alignment plans and the criticisms made against them, intended to help newcomers understand what alignment work is being done, who is doing it, and the assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses of each approach. The platform launched in an alpha version and quickly attracted alignment researchers, with over 100 plans and 150 critiques catalogued by early 2024. In addition to the compendium, AI-Plans has run several community events: Critique-a-Thons (where participants earn prizes for submitting well-reasoned critiques of alignment plans), a Law-a-Thon, an AI Alignment Evals Hackathon, and the Moonshot Alignment Program — a five-week high-intensity research sprint for participants working across tracks including Agent Foundations Theory, Applied Agent Foundations, Neuroscience-based AI Alignment, and Improved Preference Optimization. The team is small and largely volunteer-driven, with roughly 2-10 contributors. Known team members include Kabir Kumar (Director/Lead), Nathan (Quality Director and Project Manager), Jonathan Ng (independent alignment researcher), and several developers. The organization is privately held and does not appear to be a registered nonprofit. Funding to date has been very modest — early support included a private donation of approximately £4,000 (~$5,000) and small Manifund prize funds. The organization positions itself as 'leading research and events in AI alignment and safety' and is actively recruiting volunteers and seeking community engagement.