The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit focused on reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence through safety research, field-building, and policy advocacy.
AI safety, frontier model risk reduction, safety standards, technical AI safety research, public-interest AI governance, and policymaking related to responsible AI development and deployment.
Primarily philanthropic donations and grants from supporters; CAIS says it seeks to diversify funding sources and does not accept funding that would compromise its mission.
Executive Director Dan Hendrycks; related advocacy arm Center for AI Safety Action Fund (CAIS AF).
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization