Alignment Research Center
www.alignment.org · organization
Research nonprofit, ARC, founded by Paul Christiano, pursuing theoretically motivated approaches to aligning machine learning systems.
Leadership
- Paul Christiano · Executive Director
Team
7 people
source, Oct 2026
Technical AI safety research
- Received
- $5,802,500
- from 5 funders
- Grants
- 7
- Funders
- 5
- Years active
- 2022–26
Grants over time
Biggest funders
| Jaan Tallinn | $2,376,000 | 41% | 2 |
| Coefficient Giving | $1,515,000 | 26% | 2 |
| FTX Future Fund | $1,250,000 | 22% | 1 |
| UK AI Security Institute | $589,500 | 10% | 1 |
| Long-Term Future Fund | $72,000 | 1% | 1 |
Reviews
Zvi Mowshowitz · nonprofits.zone · full post · Nov 26, 2025
Confidence: High, Funding needs: Medium
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There’s a long track record of good work here, and Paul Christiano remained excited as of 2024\. If you are looking to fund straight up alignment work and don’t have a particular person or small group in mind, this is certainly a safe bet to put additional funds to good use and attract good talent.
Donate here, or reach out to jacob@alignment.org.
Asya Bergal · Long-Term Future Fund · full post · Aug 2, 2023
$54,543 · Support for a research & networking event for winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest
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- This was funding a research & networking event for the winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest run in early 2022; the plan for the event was mainly for it to be participant-led, with participants sharing what they were working on and connecting with others, along with professional alignment researchers visiting to share their own work with participants.
- I think the case for this grant is pretty straightforward: the winners of this contest are (presumably) selected for being unusually likely to be able to contribute to problems in AI alignment, and retreats, especially those involving interactions with professionals in the space, have a strong track record of getting people more involved with this work.
Grants received
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Low probability estimation: mechanistically estimating the probability of rare failures in machine learning systems — led by Jacob Hilton. — Alignment Project | |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $197,000 | Evals | sff | General support |
| Dec 2022 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $2,179,000 | Evals | sff | General Support |
| Nov 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $1,250,000 | Foundations | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Oct 2022 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $72,000 | Evals | ea_funds | A research & networking retreat for winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest |
| Mar 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $265,000 | Alignment methods | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | $1,250,000 | Technical AI safety research | ftx_future_fund | We recommended a grant to support researcher salaries, funding for contractors for evaluating AI capabilities, projects like the ELK prizes and workshops, and administrative expenses. — Artificial Intelligence |
* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.
As fiscal sponsor 1 · $3,247,000 · $3,247,000 average
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | METR | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $3,247,000 | Evals | sff | General Support of Alignment Research Center (Evals Team) |