Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
- HQ / base
- San Francisco
- Founded
- 2022
- Money
- ~$10M/yr + Open Phil support (approx)
- Status
- —
Dan Hendrycks' org: authored the one-sentence extinction-risk statement (May 2023) signed by Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Hinton, Bengio; provides a free GPU cluster to safety researchers; ML Safety course; AI Safety Newsletter. Its 501(c)(4) Action Fund co-sponsored California SB 1047 with Wiener — the moment EA-lineage safety became hardball state politics. Hendrycks also advises xAI and Scale.
Connections
- Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy)major funder
- Dan Hendrycksfounder, director
- Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA)Action Fund co-sponsored SB 1047
- Geoffrey Hintonsigned extinction statement (2023)
- Yoshua Bengiosigned extinction statement (2023)
- Sam Altmansigned extinction statement (2023)
- Dario Amodeisigned extinction statement (2023)
- Demis Hassabissigned extinction statement (2023)
- The Navigation Fundfunder (post-GV-exit gap filling, approx)