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Center for AI Safety
OrganizationTotal Funding Raised
$6.4 million
as of 2025
Founded Date
2022
Key People
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Dan HendrycksFounder
Executive & Research Director
2022 – present
Confirmed on safe.ai/about as of 2026-03-16.
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Key Legislator (SB 1047 sponsor)
Feb 2024 – present
California State Senator. Introduced SB 1047 February 2024. Passed legislature August 2024, vetoed September 2024. Also authored SB 53 (2025). Per Wikipedia.
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Chief Operating Officer
Start date unknown; Confirmed on safe.ai/about as of 2026-03-16.
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Oliver Zhang
Managing Director
Start date unknown; Confirmed on safe.ai/about as of 2026-03-16.
All Facts
Financial
Total Funding Raised$6.4 million2025▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $6.4 million | — | f_SaGQWpxjYQ |
Organization
Founded Date2022—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2022 | wikidata.org | 1jdDcOMFYA |
HeadquartersSan Francisco—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | San Francisco | wikidata.org | 0ZlJqqX2HQ |
General
Websitehttps://www.safe.ai/—▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | https://www.safe.ai/ | wikidata.org | t7r3olcDFw |
Divisions
3| Name | DivisionType | Status | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Field-Building | program-area | active | safe.ai | Programs to grow the AI safety research community, including the Statement on AI Risk signed by hundreds of researchers and the ML Safety course. |
| Compute Cluster | program-area | active | safe.ai | Provides free compute access to academic AI safety researchers. One of the largest non-industry compute resources available for safety research. |
| Research | team | active | safe.ai | Technical AI safety research on robustness, interpretability, and alignment. Led by Dan Hendrycks. |
▶Internal Metadata
| ID | y4bieqSeag |
| Stable ID | y4bieqSeag |
| Wiki ID | E47 |
| Type | organization |
| YAML Source | packages/factbase/data/things/y4bieqSeag.yaml |
| Facts | 4 structured |
| Records | 7 in 2 collections |