Also known as: ARC, ARC Alignment
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Financial
Organization
Needs attentionFounded DateOct 2021—2 pts▶
| As Of | Value | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Oct 2021 | view → | Needs attention |
| — | Apr 2021 | view → |
Needs attentionHeadquartersBerkeley, CA—2 pts▶
| As Of | Value | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Berkeley, CA | view → | Needs attention |
| — | Berkeley | view → |
People
Background
General
Board Seats
2| Member | Role | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5hsN7xhTbY | Board Member | alignment.org | Listed in governance section as board member. | Not checked |
| Buck Shlegeris | Board Member | alignment.org | Listed in governance section as board member. | Not checked |
Divisions
2| Name | DivisionType | Status | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC Theory | team | active | alignment.org | Theoretical alignment research led by Paul Christiano. Focuses on ELK (Eliciting Latent Knowledge) and foundational alignment theory. | Not checked |
| ARC Evals | team | active | evals.alignment.org | Evaluates frontier AI models for dangerous capabilities (e.g., autonomous replication). Spun out as METR in 2024 but ARC continues related eval work. | Not checked |
Entity Events
7| Title | Date | EventType | Description | Significance | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christiano appointed Head of AI Safety at US AISI | 2024-04 | leadership-change | Personal appointment at NIST rather than an institutional contract with ARC. | major | Not checked |
| ARC Evals formally renamed METR | 2023-12-04 | pivot | Model Evaluation & Threat Research; independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit led by Beth Barnes. | major | Not checked |
| ARC Evals spin-out announced | 2023-09-19 | pivot | Growth in ARC Evals' size prompted formalization of separation. | major | Not checked |
| ARC Evals incubated; Beth Barnes hired to lead it | 2022 | launch | Began incubating ARC Evals — exploratory work on independent evaluations of frontier AI models. Completed evaluations of GPT-4 (with OpenAI) and Claude (with Anthropic). | major | Not checked |
| Open Philanthropy grant ($265K) | 2022 | funding | Documented grant from Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy). | moderate | Not checked |
| Returned $1.25M FTX Foundation grant after FTX bankruptcy | 2022 | funding | — | major | Not checked |
| Founded by Paul Christiano | 2021 | founding | Founded by Paul Christiano after his departure from OpenAI; nonprofit AI safety research organization focused on theoretical alignment. | major | Not checked |
▶Internal Metadata
| ID: | sid_QsXVXtQ0zE |
| Stable ID: | sid_QsXVXtQ0zE |
| Wiki ID: | E25 |
| Type: | organization |
| YAML Source: | packages/factbase/data/fb-entities/arc.yaml |
| Facts: | 18 structured |
| Records: | 11 in 3 collections |