Information for Center for AI Safety

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Basic information

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Country United States
YouTube username @centerforaisafety2291
Twitter username @ai_risks
Website safe.ai
Team page https://safe.ai/about
Launch date 2022-01-01

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2022 23 Alex Pan, Andy Zou, Dan Hendrycks, Jun Shern Chan, Mantas Mazeika, Max Kaufmann, Michael Chen, Nathaniel Li, Scott Emmons, Steven Basart, Thomas Woodside, Thomas Woodside Anders Edson, Corin Katzke, Joshua Clymer, Kevin Liu, Madhav Malhotra, Marc Carauleanu, Oliver Zhang, Ronit Singh, Ronit Singh, Sidney Hough Rune Kvist
2023 19 Andy Zou, Dan Hendrycks, Jun Shern Chan, Mantas Mazeika, Max Kaufmann, Michael Chen, Nathaniel Li, Scott Emmons, Steven Basart, Thomas Woodside Anders Edson, Corin Katzke, Joshua Clymer, Kevin Liu, Madhav Malhotra, Oliver Zhang, Ronit Singh, Sidney Hough Rune Kvist

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2022-01-01 1 Thomas Woodside
2023-01-01 17 Anders Edson, Andy Zou, Corin Katzke, Dan Hendrycks, Joshua Clymer, Kevin Liu, Madhav Malhotra, Mantas Mazeika, Max Kaufmann, Michael Chen, Nathaniel Li, Oliver Zhang, Ronit Singh, Scott Emmons, Sidney Hough, Steven Basart, Thomas Woodside

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2022-01-01 1 1 0 Thomas Woodside
2022-04-01 3 2 0 Oliver Zhang, Rune Kvist
2022-05-01 4 1 0 Steven Basart
2022-06-01 7 3 0 Madhav Malhotra, Marc Carauleanu, Ronit Singh
2022-07-01 9 2 0 Alex Pan, Anders Edson
2022-08-01 7 1 -3 Nathaniel Li Alex Pan, Ronit Singh, Thomas Woodside
2022-08-13 17 10 0 Andy Zou, Dan Hendrycks, Joshua Clymer, Jun Shern Chan, Kevin Liu, Mantas Mazeika, Michael Chen, Scott Emmons, Sidney Hough, Thomas Woodside
2022-09-01 18 2 -1 Max Kaufmann, Ronit Singh Marc Carauleanu
2022-12-01 19 1 0 Corin Katzke

List of people (23 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Alex Pan Research Intern 2022-07-01 2022-08-01 intern [1]
Anders Edson Project Manager 2022-07-01 [2], [3]
Andy Zou Project Manager & Research Collaborator 2022-08-13 [3]
Dan Hendrycks Executive and Research Director 2022-08-13 [3]
Joshua Clymer Project Manager 2022-08-13 [3]
Jun Shern Chan Research Intern 2022-08-13 intern [3]
Kevin Liu Project Manager 2022-08-13 [3]
Corin Katzke Writer 2022-12-01 part-time [4] Remote
Madhav Malhotra Teaching Assistant 2022-06-01 [5] Remote
Mantas Mazeika Research Collaborator 2022-08-13 [3]
Marc Carauleanu Machine Learning Safety Scholar 2022-06-01 2022-09-01 full-time [6]
Max Kaufmann Research Assistant 2022-09-01 full-time [7] Continuing work on adversarial robustness in the image classification setting.
Michael Chen Research Collaborator 2022-08-13 [3]
Nathaniel Li Undergraduate Researcher 2022-08-01 [8]
Oliver Zhang Project Manager 2022-04-01 full-time [9], [3]
Ronit Singh Machine Learning Safety Scholar 2022-06-01 2022-08-01 part-time [10]
Ronit Singh Grader 2022-09-01 part-time [10]
Rune Kvist Board Member 2022-04-01 board member [11]
Scott Emmons Research Collaborator 2022-08-13 [3]
Sidney Hough Project Manager 2022-08-13 [3]
Steven Basart Research Engineer 2022-05-01 full-time [12], [3]
Thomas Woodside Researcher & Project Manager 2022-01-01 2022-08-01 full-time [3], [13] At the newly established Center for AI Safety, he was the first employee and spent full time working on research and managing projects. Some of his responsibilities included co-writing the Pragmatic AI Safety research agenda, overseeing the Machine Learning Safety Scholars program, and managing communications. He would be continuing with these duties on a part-time basis starting in mid-August 2022.
Thomas Woodside Project Manager & Research Collaborator 2022-08-13 part-time [3], [13] He would continue work part time while in school. Working on a research project involving Trojan detection in large language models.

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