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Alignment Research Center is listed on DirJournal under AI Safety Research Labs in Berkeley, California, United States.

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Alignment Research Center

The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a non-profit AI alignment research organization founded by former OpenAI alignment lead Paul Christiano in 2021 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. ARC conducts theoretical and applied research on AI alignment with the mission of ensuring that future advanced AI systems are aligned with human interests. The organization originally housed the influential ARC Evaluations team (which spun off as METR in 2024) and continues research on heuristic arguments, mechanistic anomaly detection, eliciting latent knowledge, and theoretical alignment foundations. Paul Christianos research at ARC including the original ARC Theory work has been highly influential in shaping modern alignment research methodology and theoretical foundations.

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Editorial analysis

ARC's spinoff of METR demonstrates how foundational alignment research translates into specialized safety evaluation capabilities. Christiano's theoretical frameworks on latent knowledge and mechanistic anomaly detection now inform multiple organizations advancing AI safety beyond academic

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About Alignment Research Center

What does Alignment Research Center do?
The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a non-profit AI alignment research organization founded by former OpenAI alignment lead Paul Christiano in 2021 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Where is Alignment Research Center based?
Alignment Research Center is based in Berkeley, California, United States.
When was Alignment Research Center founded?
Alignment Research Center was founded in 2021 and has been operating for 5 years.
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Location
Berkeley, California, United States
Founded
2021
Team Size
1-10 employees
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    alignment.orgHTTPS
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    Active
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  • Platform Tenure
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Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00

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