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Open Philanthropy: ARC General Support
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This grant page documents philanthropic support for ARC (Alignment Research Center), useful for understanding the AI safety funding landscape and which organizations receive support from major funders like Open Philanthropy.
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This page documents Open Philanthropy's general support grant to the Alignment Research Center (ARC), a nonprofit AI safety organization focused on technical alignment research. ARC works on problems related to understanding and evaluating AI systems, including developing methods to assess whether AI models are deceptive or misaligned. The grant reflects Open Philanthropy's prioritization of technical AI safety work.
Key Points
- •Open Philanthropy provided general support funding to the Alignment Research Center (ARC) to advance technical AI safety research.
- •ARC focuses on alignment research including evaluating potential deceptive alignment and other failure modes in advanced AI systems.
- •The grant supports ARC's work on interpretability, evals, and understanding AI model internals and behaviors.
- •This funding reflects Open Philanthropy's strategy of backing organizations working on preventing catastrophic risks from advanced AI.
- •ARC, founded by Paul Christiano, is known for developing AI evaluation frameworks used by labs like Anthropic.
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