| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Twitter username | @oughtinc |
| Website | https://ought.org/ |
| Team page | https://ought.org/team |
| Launch date | 2019-01-01 |
| Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org | 2024-11-05 |
| Donations List Website (data still preliminary) | |
| Agendas | Factored cognition |
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).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | 4 | Andreas Stuhlmüller, Ryan Carey, Tom McGrath, Zachary Miller |
| 2019-01-01 | 5 | Andreas Stuhlmüller, Ben Rachbach, Jungwon Byun, Tom McGrath, Zachary Miller |
| 2020-01-01 | 6 | Andreas Stuhlmüller, Aparna Ashok, Ben Rachbach, Jungwon Byun, Tom McGrath, Zachary Miller |
| 2021-01-01 | 8 | Amanda Ngo, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Aparna Ashok, Ben Rachbach, Eli Lifland, Jungwon Byun, Tom McGrath, Zachary Miller |
| 2022-01-01 | 7 | Amanda Ngo, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Ben Rachbach, James Brady, Jungwon Byun, Justin Reppert, Tom McGrath |
| 2023-01-01 | 9 | Amanda Ngo, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Ben Rachbach, James Brady, Jungwon Byun, Justin Reppert, Luke Stebbing, Maggie Appleton, Tom McGrath |
| 2024-01-01 | 4 | Jungwon Byun, Owain Evans, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Tom McGrath |
| 2025-01-01 | 5 | Jungwon Byun, Lukas Finnveden, Owain Evans, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Tom McGrath |
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.
| Person | Title | Start date | End date | Employment type | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lukas Finnveden | Director | 2024-05-27 | [1], [2] | |||
| Owain Evans | Director & CEO | 2023-10-18 | board member | [3] | ||
| Owen Cotton-Barratt | Director | 2023-09-29 | [4], [5], [2] | |||
| Andreas Stuhlmüller | Chied Executive Officer | 2017-09-01 | 2023-08-01 | board member | [6] | |
| Adrian Smith | Software Engineer | 2023-05-01 | 2023-09-01 | [7], [8] | ||
| Amanda Ngo | Business Operations Analyst | 2020-06-01 | 2023-04-01 | full-time | [9], [10] | |
| Andrew Schreiber | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Aparna Ashok | Independent Contractor | 2019-08-01 | 2021-09-01 | contractor | [13] | |
| Ben Goldhaber | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Ben Rachbach | Quality Iteration Program Manager | 2018-04-01 | 2023-09-01 | [9], [14] | ||
| Ben Weinstein-Raun | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Charlie George | Machine Learning Intern | 2022-07-01 | 2023-09-01 | intern | [15], [3] | |
| Chris Cundy | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Eli Lifland | Software and Research Engineer | 2020-08-01 | 2022-01-01 | full-time | [9], [16] | |
| Girish Sastry | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Ian McKenzie | Software Engineering Intern | 2021-10-01 | 2022-01-01 | intern | [17] | |
| James Brady | Head Of Engineering | 2022-01-01 | 2023-08-01 | full-time | [18], [3], [19] | |
| Jungwon Byun | Cofounder & COO | 2019-01-01 | [9], [20] | |||
| Justin Reppert | Machine Learning Research Engineer | 2021-06-01 | 2023-09-01 | full-time | [17] | |
| Luke Stebbing | Software Engineer | 2022-07-01 | 2023-07-01 | full-time | [17], [21] | |
| Maggie Appleton | Product Designer | 2022-07-01 | 2023-09-01 | full-time | [22] | |
| Milan Griffes | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Neal Jean | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Noah Goodman | Advisor | 2018-01-01 | 2022-01-17 | advisor | [11], [12], [23] | |
| Owain Evans | Board member and collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2019-02-02 | board member | [12], [24] | |
| Owain Evans | Advisor | 2021-05-14 | 2023-09-01 | advisor | [9], [25] | |
| Ozzie Gooen | Collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2018-10-17 | [11], [12] | ||
| Paul Christiano | Board member & collaborator | 2018-10-17 | 2019-02-02 | board member | [26], [24] | |
| Paul Christiano | Advisor | 2021-05-14 | 2023-09-01 | advisor | [25] | |
| Ryan Carey | Collaborator | 2017-11-01 | 2018-07-01 | [27], [11], [12] | He served as a Research Intern at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. During this time, he took on the role of Lead Engineer for the Predicting Human Deliberative Judgments project, conducted in collaboration with Ought | |
| Sarah Park | Head of Operations | 2023-05-01 | 2023-09-01 | full-time | [28] | |
| Tom McGrath | Collaborator | 2018-01-01 | [11], [12] | |||
| Zachary Miller | Collaborator | 2018-01-01 | 2021-06-24 | [11], [29] | ||
| Ben West | Recruiter | 2018-06-01 | 2018-12-01 | [30], [12] |
| Name | Creation date | Description |
|---|
| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment on After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation | 2019-02-27 | Aaron Gertler | Effective Altruism Forum | Centre for Effective Altruism, Open Philanthropy, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Ought, Vox, AI Impacts, Center for Human-Compatible AI, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Job application experience | Various | Gertler describes his experience applying to various effective altruism-related organizations. | |
| After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation | 2019-02-25 | EA applicant | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy, Centre for Effective Altruism, Future of Humanity Institute, Effective Giving UK, Rethink Charity, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Global Priorities Institute, Ought, Veddis, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | A pseudonymous effective altruist gives their experience applying to various effective altruist (and related) organizations. | |||
| MIRI’s newest recruit: Edward Kmett! | 2018-12-01 | yiavin | Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Ought | Edward Kmett, Nate Soares | AI safety | A post on r/haskell about Edward Kmett joining MIRI, with comments from Kmett. In comments, Kmett says that “Nate Soares came out to Boston personally, and made a very compelling argument for me going off and doing the work I’d been trying to complete solely in my evening hours full time”. Kmett also says he has “helped ought.org find at least one developer”. |
| Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Affected agendas | Notes |
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