Redwood Research

Founded Jun 2021 (4 years old)HQ: San Francisco, CAredwoodresearch.org ↗

Also known as: Redwood

Structured Facts

Database Records

Revenue

$22K

as of 2024

Headcount

as of 2023

Founded Date

Jun 2021

All Facts

Annual Expenses$2.9M20244 pts▶

Headcount3420232 pts▶

As Of	Value	Link
2023	34	view →
Oct 2021	10	view →

Net Assets$6.5M20244 pts▶

Revenue$22K20244 pts▶

Founded DateJun 2021—view →

HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA—view →

Legal StructureNonprofit research lab—view →

legal-identifier87-1702255 (EIN)—view →

Name	DivisionType	Status	Source	Notes	Source check
Redwood Research	team	active	redwoodresearch.org	Core research team working on interpretability and adversarial training techniques. Small org (~15-20 people) focused on applied alignment research including causal scrubbing and circuit-level interpretability.

Dimension	Rating	Evidence	Assessor
focus-area	AI systems acting against developer interests	Primary research on AI Control and alignment faking	editorial
funding	$25M+ from Coefficient Giving	$9.4M (2021), $10.7M (2022), $5.3M (2023)	editorial
key-concern	Research output relative to funding	2023 critics cited limited publications; subsequent ICML, NeurIPS work addressed this	editorial
team-size	10 staff (2021), 6-15 research staff (2023 estimate)	Early team of 10 expanded to research organization	editorial

Title	Date	EventType	Description	Significance	Source
Alignment faking paper with Anthropic	2024-12	publication	Landmark collaboration with Anthropic on alignment faking research.	major	anthropic.com
Buck Shlegeris becomes CEO; AI Control ICML oral	2024	leadership-change	Buck Shlegeris transitions from CTO to CEO and Director; Ryan Greenblatt serves as Chief Scientist. AI Control work accepted as an ICML oral.	major	projects.propublica.org
REMIX interpretability program runs	2023	launch	Mechanistic interpretability training program for ~10-15 junior researchers.	moderate	forum.effectivealtruism.org
Adversarial robustness research project	2022	milestone	Initial adversarial training project; later acknowledged by leadership as unsuccessful.	minor	blog.redwoodresearch.org
Causal scrubbing methodology developed	2022	publication	Developed across 2022-2023; method for rigorously testing mechanistic interpretability claims.	moderate	lesswrong.com
MLAB bootcamp launches	2021-12	launch	Inaugural ML for Alignment Bootcamp with 40 participants; 3-week intensive teaching attendees to build BERT/GPT-2 from scratch.	moderate	blog.redwoodresearch.org
Tax-exempt status granted; 10 staff assembled	2021-09	founding	—	major	projects.propublica.org

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