AI Watch

Welcome! This is a website to track people and organizations working on AI safety. See the code repository for the source code and data of this website.

This website is developed by Issa Rice with data contributions from Sebastian Sanchez and Vipul Naik and has been partially funded by Vipul Naik.

If you like (or want to like) this website and have money: the current funder doesn't want to continue funding this project. As a result, it is currently mostly sitting around. If you want to bring this site to the next level, contact Issa at riceissa@gmail.com. What you get: site improvements, recognition in the site credits. What the site needs: money.

If you have time and want experience building websites: this website is looking for contributors. If you want to help out, contact Issa at riceissa@gmail.com. What you get: little or no pay (this could change if the site gets funding; see previous paragraph), recognition in the site credits, privilege of working with me, knowledge of the basics of web development (MySQL, PHP, Git). What the site needs: data collection/entry and website code improvements.

Last updated on 2020-09-07.

Table of contents

Agendas

AI safety relation by subject

Note: as shown by the large number of “unknown” values, most of the positions haven’t been categorized by relation/subject so this table will only be useful in the future.

Subject Unknown AGI organization GCR organization position Total Unknown 1835 238 20 243 2336 background 0 0 0 25 25 general 0 0 2 8 10 grant investigation 0 0 0 3 3 policy 0 0 0 1 1 popularization 0 0 0 2 2 scientific advising 0 0 0 4 4 software engineering 0 2 0 10 12 strategy 0 0 0 1 1 technical research 0 0 0 34 34 Total 1835 240 22 331 2428

Positions summary by year

Note: as shown by the large number of “unknown” values, most of the positions haven’t been categorized by start/end dates so this table will only be useful in the future.

Year Start date End date Unknown 1006 1523 2000 6 0 2002 1 1 2004 4 0 2005 10 2 2006 12 13 2007 17 6 2008 4 5 2009 19 7 2010 29 23 2011 45 36 2012 49 34 2013 66 56 2014 86 38 2015 150 113 2016 314 167 2017 258 161 2018 272 188 2019 71 53 2020 9 2

Positions grouped by person

Showing 763 people with positions.

Positions grouped by organization

Showing 125 organizations.

Individuals not affiliated with any organization

Showing 1069 people.

Products

This section lists AI safety-related “products”: interactive tools, websites, flowcharts, datasets, etc. Unlike documents, products tend to be interactive, are updated continually, or require inputs from the consumer.

Showing 33 products.