Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
Future of Humanity InstituteOxford’s Future of Humanity Institute helped make existential risk from advanced AI a serious academic and policy field. Led by Nick Bostrom until its closure in 2024, it connected technical AI safety with forecasting, governance and long-term questions about humanity’s future.
AI Now InstitutePolicy research institute studying the social, political, and economic impacts of AI, with a focus on accountability, power, labor, and public-interest governance.
GovAIIndependent research organization producing policy research and developing talent to help governments, technology companies, and other institutions navigate the risks and opportunities of advanced AI.
BlueDot ImpactEducation organisation offering intensive programmes in AI safety, governance, strategy, biosecurity, and defensive engineering.
Collective Intelligence ProjectResearch and governance incubator founded in 2023 by Divya Siddarth, Saffron Huang, and Jasmine Wang. Develops democratic processes — such as "alignment assemblies" — for steering transformative technologies like AI toward the collective good.
ControlAIUK non-profit advocating for stronger public control, safety standards, and governance of advanced AI systems.
Independent US government agency that enforces consumer-protection and antitrust law, founded in 1914 and active on AI and data-privacy regulation.
George Washington UniversityGeorge Washington University brings an unusual Washington policy setting to AI research. Its university-wide Trustworthy AI Initiative joins engineering with law, public policy, health and social science to study how AI systems should be designed, evaluated and governed.
Institute for AI Policy and StrategyResearch organisation analysing the policy and governance implications of advanced AI (IAPS).
Multi-stakeholder non-profit bringing together civil society, academia, and industry to study responsible AI practices and policy.
White House Office of Science and Technology PolicyAdvises the U.S. president on science and technology, coordinates policy across the executive branch and helps shape federal research priorities. Its remit includes artificial intelligence, quantum technology and biotechnology.
Acrolinx is a Berlin-based AI content governance company founded in 2002 that helps enterprises align content to brand and style guidelines using NLP-based analysis.
Ada Lovelace InstituteUK research institute focused on making data and AI work in the public interest through policy research, public engagement, and governance analysis.
The Berkman Klein Center is a Harvard-wide research center studying how digital technologies affect public life, human agency and institutions. Its AI work covers governance, accountability, safety, youth, public-interest technology and the social effects of automated systems.
Brookings InstitutionThink tank whose AI and Emerging Technology Initiative and Center for Technology Innovation research AI governance, safety, standards, equity, and the effects of emerging technology on democracy and public policy.
Nonprofit (chaired by co-founder Priya Donti) that catalyzes work at the intersection of machine learning and climate change, building a global community of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Cosmos InstituteNonprofit supporting research, fellowships, grants, and educational programs that connect philosophy with the development of AI, with a focus on human autonomy and flourishing.
EncodeYouth-led AI policy nonprofit (formerly Encode Justice) founded by Sneha Revanur. Mobilizes young people worldwide to advocate for safe, equitable AI and has contributed to AI legislation in the US.
FidianResearch-driven product company building verification and governance tools for AI agents, checking their decisions against human-readable specifications during development and production.
Institute for Law & AIProduces practical legal research on how governments and institutions should respond to increasingly capable AI systems. Its work addresses regulatory design, institutional authority, security, liability and the rule of law.
KIRA CenterIndependent think tank shaping policy for advanced AI. Its work spans AI safety, European regulation, and Germany's computing capacity; staff have helped write international AI safety reports and the EU general-purpose AI code of practice.
The UK Office for Artificial Intelligence coordinated implementation of the National AI Strategy and work on responsible adoption, ecosystem investment and AI governance. Its functions now sit within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's AI Policy Directorate.
AI Objectives InstituteAI Objectives Institute studies how the incentives inside AI systems, markets and bureaucracies can diverge from human interests. Its work combines alignment research with democracy, economic design, cooperation and structural-risk analysis.
AlgorithmWatchEuropean civil-society organization researching and advocating for accountable algorithmic systems and stronger digital-rights protections.