Center for AI Safety

Reducing societal-scale risks from AI through research, field-building, and advocacy.

About Us

Year Founded:

2022

Geography:

North America

Address:

San Francisco, California, USA

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Mission

To reduce societal-scale risks associated withAI by conducting safety research, building the field of AI safety researchers,and advocating for safety standards.

Impact

AI areas they serve

Areas of Focus

Technical AI safety research

AI risk reduction

field-building for AI safety

compute infrastructure for safety research

AI policy advocacy

robustness of safety guardrails

AI hallucination detection

adversarial attacks on language models

Upcoming Goals

Continue expanding the compute cluster supporting ~20 AI safety research labs

Develop new benchmarks for empirically assessing AI safety

Grow the AI safety research field through funding and educational resources

Advance policy advocacy for AI safety standards

Milestones

2024: Co-sponsored California bill SB 1047 on frontier AI safety through the CAIS Action Fund (vetoed by Gov. Newsom, Sept 2024)

2023: Published landmark Statement on AI Risk of Extinction, signed by 600+ leading AI researchers and public figures including heads of major AI companies

Published "An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

2024: Launched SafeBench competition ($250K in prizes from Schmidt Sciences) to develop benchmarks for AI safety
developed "CUT" unlearning method featured by TIME

2022: Founded by Dan Hendrycks and Oliver Zhang

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