Information for Theiss Research

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Basic information

Item Value
Country United States
Facebook username 2023-09-04
Website http://www.theissresearch.org/
Team page https://web.archive.org/web/20160610165130/http://www.theissresearch.org:80/scientists
Launch date 2006-01-01
Donations List Website (data still preliminary) donor, donee

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
2015 1 Jack Glover
2016 1 Jack Glover
2017 2 Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2018 2 Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2019 2 Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2020 2 Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2021 2 Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2022 3 Rebecca Bone, Rodrigo Duran Jack Glover
2023 3 Rebecca Bone, Rodrigo Duran Karina Torres Castro
2024 3 Rebecca Bone, Rodrigo Duran Karina Torres Castro

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
2015-01-01 1 Jack Glover
2016-01-01 1 Jack Glover
2017-01-01 1 Jack Glover
2018-01-01 2 Jack Glover, Rodrigo Duran
2019-01-01 2 Jack Glover, Rodrigo Duran
2020-01-01 2 Jack Glover, Rodrigo Duran
2021-01-01 2 Jack Glover, Rodrigo Duran
2022-01-01 2 Jack Glover, Rodrigo Duran
2023-01-01 2 Rebecca Bone, Rodrigo Duran
2024-01-01 3 Karina Torres Castro, Rebecca Bone, Rodrigo Duran

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
3 3 0 Long Ouyang, Paul Christiano, Soraya Bernal
2015-01-01 4 1 0 Jack Glover
2017-05-01 5 1 0 Rodrigo Duran
2022-06-01 4 0 -1 Jack Glover
2022-11-01 5 1 0 Rebecca Bone
2023-04-01 6 1 0 Karina Torres Castro

List of people (7 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Jack Glover Physicist 2015-01-01 2022-06-01 [1] He served as the lead researcher on projects focused on imaging technologies utilized in military, law enforcement, and aviation security applications. I successfully secured funding for my research through a multi-year grant provided by the NIST Security Technologies Group.
Karina Torres Castro Project Engineer 2023-04-01 part-time [2]
Long Ouyang [3] One of 37 AGI Safety Researchers of 2015 funded by donations from Elon Musk and the Open Philanthropy Project
Paul Christiano Contractor contractor [4]
Rebecca Bone Postdoctoral Researcher 2022-11-01 [5]
Rodrigo Duran Principal Research Scientist 2017-05-01 full-time [6]
Soraya Bernal Administrative Assistant part-time [7]

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