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Organizations / Alignment Research Center (ARC) Also known as: ARC, ARC Alignment
Annual Expenses $6.3M 2023 3 pts ▶ Net Assets $7.1M 2023 3 pts ▶ Revenue $10M 2023 3 pts ▶ Founder (text) Paul Christiano — view → Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_Research_Center — view → Website http://alignment.org/ — view → Member Role Source Notes Source check Buck Shlegeris Person Buck Shlegeris CEO of Redwood Research, focused on AI safety research and alignment techniques. Board Member alignment.org Listed in governance section as board member. Not checked
Name DivisionType Status Source Notes Source check ARC Theory team active alignment.org Theoretical alignment research led by Paul Christiano. Focuses on ELK (Eliciting Latent Knowledge) and foundational alignment theory. Not checked ARC Evals team active evals.alignment.org Evaluates frontier AI models for dangerous capabilities (e.g., autonomous replication). Spun out as METR in 2024 but ARC continues related eval work. Not checked
Title Date EventType Description Significance Source check Christiano appointed Head of AI Safety at US AISI 2024-04 leadership-change Personal appointment at NIST rather than an institutional contract with ARC. major Not checked ARC Evals formally renamed METR 2023-12-04 pivot Model Evaluation & Threat Research; independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit led by Beth Barnes. major Not checked ARC Evals spin-out announced 2023-09-19 pivot Growth in ARC Evals' size prompted formalization of separation. major Not checked ARC Evals incubated; Beth Barnes hired to lead it 2022 launch Began incubating ARC Evals — exploratory work on independent evaluations of frontier AI models. Completed evaluations of GPT-4 (with OpenAI) and Claude (with Anthropic). major Not checked Open Philanthropy grant ($265K) 2022 funding Documented grant from Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy). moderate Not checked Returned $1.25M FTX Foundation grant after FTX bankruptcy 2022 funding — major Not checked Founded by Paul Christiano 2021 founding Founded by Paul Christiano after his departure from OpenAI; nonprofit AI safety research organization focused on theoretical alignment. major Not checked
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