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Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI)

Academic

Also known as: CHAI

The Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) is an academic research center at UC Berkeley focused on ensuring AI systems are beneficial to humans. CHAI brings academic rigor to AI safety research.

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Funding Rounds

$17Mtotal raised
Funding Rounds. Open Philanthropy Founding Grant (Aug 2016): $5.6M raised; Open Philanthropy Multi-Year Renewal (Jan 2021): $11M raised. Total: $17M.$0$3.3M$6.5M$9.8M$13M20162021Open Philanthropy Founding GrantOpen Philanthropy Multi-Year Renewal
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General
Websitehttps://humancompatible.ai

Divisions

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Lab

Academic AI safety research lab at UC Berkeley. Researches value alignment, cooperative inverse reinforcement learning (CIRL), and human-AI interaction.

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Approaches

Cooperative IRL (CIRL)Constitutional AIAI EvaluationAI Safety Training Programs

Analysis

AI Compute Scaling MetricsAI Safety Intervention Effectiveness MatrixCorrigibility Failure PathwaysAI Safety Research Allocation ModelAI Risk Interaction MatrixAI Safety Researcher Gap Model

Organizations

AnthropicCenter for Applied RationalityOpenAI

Other

Vipul NaikRohin Shah

Risks

Corrigibility Failure

Concepts

Safety Orgs Overview

Historical

Deep Learning Revolution Era