“The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a non-profit research organization whose mission is to align future machine learning systems with human interests.”In its own words: alignment.org
AI alignment research nonprofit led by Paul Christiano; mainly a grantee, its grantmaking was a one-off Eliciting Latent Knowledge prize contest.
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A nonprofit alignment research organisation, not a grantmaker, working on theoretical foundations for mechanistic explanations of neural network behaviour. It funds outside work only through occasional prize contests: the 2022 ELK prize and, in 2026, the White-Box Estimation Challenge run with AIcrowd, with leaderboard prizes and a prize for the best algorithmic contribution.
Says it gives about $274k (2022)
On applying “ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge, a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs.” alignment.org
Itemised here $70k in 7 grants
Money flows
Where its money came from and where it went. Pick years and what to show; hover a box or ribbon for details, click one to focus it, click the background to see everything.
How to apply
- Applications
- Not stated
Biggest recipients
- Sam Marks$20k
- Individual #2467$10k
- Individual #56081$10k
- Individual #1851$10k
- Individual #3932$10k
- Individual #7060$5k
All grants
7 grants totalling $70k, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2022 7 grants · $70k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2022 | Sam Marks | $20k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) source |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #2467 | $10k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #56081 | $10k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #1851 | $10k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #3932 | $10k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #7060 | $5k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Individual #4327 | $5k | Eliciting Latent Knowledge (ELK) contest, first-round prize for an ELK proposal ($70,000 to 7 winners in all) |