The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is an AI alignment research center at the University of California, Berkeley. Its mission is "to develop the conceptual and technical wherewithal to reorient the general thrust of AI research towards provably beneficial systems."^[1]

Funding

As of June 2022, CHAI has received over $17.1 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[2] nearly $780,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[3] and over $120,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^[4]^[5]

Evaluation

CHAI is one of the four organizations recommended by Founders Pledge in their cause report on safeguarding the long-term future.^[6]

Further reading

Open Philanthropy (2016) UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2016), Open Philanthropy, August.

Rice, Issa (2018) Timeline of Center for Human-Compatible AI, Timelines Wiki, February 8.

External links

Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence. Official website.

Apply for a job.

Donate to CHAI.

Related entries

AI alignment | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Human Compatible | Stuart Russell

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Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021) About, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence.
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Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Center for Human-Compatible AI, Open Philanthropy.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.
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Long-Term Future Fund (2020) September 2020: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, September.
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Long-Term Future Fund (2021) May 2021: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, May.
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Halstead, John (2019) Safeguarding the future cause area report, Founders Pledge, January (updated December 2020).