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Transluce

Nonprofit lab building open tools to understand and oversee AI systems, including its Docent analysis tool and public reports on how models behave, such as its mental-health evaluation.

The AI Security Institute (AISI)

The UK government's research body on advanced AI risks, which tests leading models, including before release, and publishes research on their security; founded as the AI Safety Institute.

Worth knowing: Renamed in February 2025, with a sharper focus on national-security and criminal-misuse risks.

Apollo Research

Studies 'scheming', where AI systems covertly pursue goals their developers did not intend, and builds methods and tools to detect and monitor it.

Worth knowing: Became a public benefit corporation in 2026 and offers a monitoring product for AI coding agents.

Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)

Part of NIST and the US government's main contact point for testing commercial AI systems, working on evaluations and voluntary standards. Formerly the US AI Safety Institute.

Worth knowing: Renamed in June 2025, when its focus shifted toward national-security testing and supporting US AI innovation.

METR

Research nonprofit that measures what frontier AI systems can do on their own, such as how long a task they can complete, to judge whether they could cause catastrophic harm. Began as ARC Evals.

Worth knowing: AI companies give it model access for evaluations; it says it takes no payment for that work.

PauseAI

Grassroots movement with local chapters that organises protests and lobbying for an international pause on the most powerful AI systems until they can be made safe.

Worth knowing: Advocacy and protest movement.

The Collective Intelligence Project

Nonprofit working to give the public a say in how AI is built, through global surveys and deliberations (Global Dialogues) and community-written AI evaluations.

Center for AI Safety

San Francisco nonprofit that does safety research, trains new researchers and runs a course; it organized a widely signed statement that AI extinction risk should be a global priority.

Worth knowing: Also advocates for AI safety standards.

Epoch AI

Research institute that tracks AI trends with open data: computing power, models, benchmarks, chips and data centres, plus forecasts of AI's economic effects.

Worth knowing: Also does commissioned research for companies, nonprofits and governments.

Humane Intelligence

Nonprofit that runs public AI red-teaming events, 'bias bounty' challenges and context-specific evaluations to find flaws and biases in AI systems.

Center for Humane Technology

Nonprofit founded by Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Randima Fernando that examines how AI and social media affect people and society, including the risks of human-like chatbot design.

Worth knowing: Advocacy organization; it supports lawsuits against AI chatbot makers.

Future of Life Institute

Nonprofit working to steer powerful technology away from extreme risks through grants, policy work and outreach; publishes the AI Safety Index, which grades leading AI companies.

Worth knowing: Advocacy organization that runs public campaigns for AI regulation.

Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

One of the oldest AI safety groups, whose early research helped found the field; it now argues that building superintelligence with current methods would most likely lead to human extinction.

Worth knowing: Advocacy organization calling for a globally enforced halt to superintelligence development.

ControlAI

Campaign group that briefs lawmakers and helps the public contact representatives, pushing for a ban on developing superintelligent AI.

Worth knowing: Advocacy organization.

Redwood Research

Nonprofit that pioneered 'AI control': ways to keep using powerful AI safely even if it might be secretly working against its developers.

Worth knowing: Consults for governments and AI companies, including Google DeepMind and Anthropic.