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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
2023 2 Ethan Kosak-Hine Owen Yeung
2024 14 Ayush Bharadwaj, Ediz Ucar, Ethan Kosak-Hine, Haley Y., Jiaming Yu, Kai Fronsdal, Tom Gibbs Jackson Kaunismaa, Jasmine Li, Lauren M., Lauren M., Neav Topaz, Owen Yeung Lauren M.
2025 22 Ayush Bharadwaj, Connie Robinson, Dipika Khullar, Ediz Ucar, Ethan Kosak-Hine, Galvin Khara, Haley Y., Jeremy Dolan, Jiaming Yu, Kai Fronsdal, Meeri Kuoppala, Mo G., Natalia Kokoromyti, Tom Gibbs Diogo Cruz, Jackson Kaunismaa, Jasmine Li, Neav Topaz, Owen Yeung, Yuxiao Li, Zhonghao He Lauren M.

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
2024-01-01 3 Ethan Kosak-Hine, Lauren M., Owen Yeung
2025-01-01 12 Ayush Bharadwaj, Diogo Cruz, Ediz Ucar, Ethan Kosak-Hine, Haley Y., Jackson Kaunismaa, Jasmine Li, Jiaming Yu, Kai Fronsdal, Neav Topaz, Owen Yeung, Tom Gibbs

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
2023-09-01 1 1 0 Ethan Kosak-Hine
2023-10-01 2 1 0 Owen Yeung
2024-01-01 3 1 0 Lauren M.
2024-02-01 4 1 0 Jasmine Li
2024-03-01 5 1 0 Tom Gibbs
2024-04-01 4 0 -1 Lauren M.
2024-04-02 5 1 0 Lauren M.
2024-06-01 11 6 0 Ayush Bharadwaj, Ediz Ucar, Haley Y., Jackson Kaunismaa, Jiaming Yu, Kai Fronsdal
2024-10-01 11 1 -1 Neav Topaz Lauren M.
2024-10-02 12 1 0 Lauren M.
2025-01-01 13 1 0 Diogo Cruz
2025-02-01 21 8 0 Connie Robinson, Dipika Khullar, Galvin Khara, Jeremy Dolan, Meeri Kuoppala, Mo G., Natalia Kokoromyti, Yuxiao Li
2025-08-01 22 1 0 Zhonghao He

List of people (24 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Jackson Kaunismaa Interpretability and Scalable Oversight - Mentee 2024-06-01 [1]
Neav Topaz Co-Director 2024-10-01 full-time [2]
Owen Yeung Coauthor of upcoming paper on language model feature synthesis 2023-10-01 part-time [3]
Kai Fronsdal AI Safety Researcher 2024-06-01 part-time [4]
Meeri Kuoppala Research Mentee 2025-02-01 part-time [5]
Jeremy Dolan Research Fellow 2025-02-01 part-time [6]
Diogo Cruz Mentor 2025-01-01 [7]
Yuxiao Li Mentor 2025-02-01 [8]
Tom Gibbs Researcher 2024-03-01 [9]
Natalia Kokoromyti Research Fellow 2025-02-01 [10]
Haley Y. Researcher 2024-06-01 [11]
Connie Robinson Research Fellow 2025-02-01 [12]
Ayush Bharadwaj Researcher, AI Safety 2024-06-01 part-time [13]
Dipika Khullar Research Fellow 2025-02-01 part-time [14]
Jiaming Yu Researcher 2024-06-01 part-time [15]
Ethan Kosak-Hine Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) 2023-09-01 [16]
Lauren M. Advisor 2024-10-02 advisor [17]
Jasmine Li Mentee 2024-02-01 part-time [18]
Mo G. Research Fellow 2025-02-01 [19]
Zhonghao He Mentor 2025-08-01 [20]
Ediz Ucar Machine Learning Researcher 2024-06-01 [21]
Galvin Khara Research Fellow 2025-02-01 part-time [22]
Lauren M. Executive Director 2024-04-02 2024-10-01 advisor [17]
Lauren M. Head of Operations 2024-01-01 2024-04-01 advisor [17]

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