Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,466,022
- Total expenses
- $1,425,170
- Contributions and grants received
- $4,466,000
- Grants paid
- $262,000
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $22
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,716,204
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,353,054
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $3,363,150
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,358,412
- Management and general expenses
- $66,262
- Fundraising expenses
- $496
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,358,412
Program services were 95.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$4,466,000
-
3 · Investment income
total $22 · excluded $22
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $5,000 · program services $5,000
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $183,000 · program services $183,000
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $74,000 · program services $74,000
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $671,392 · program services $630,986 · management and general $39,910 · fundraising $496
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $4,380 · program services $3,191 · management and general $1,189
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $39,967 · program services $36,310 · management and general $3,657
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $30,778 · program services $20,179 · management and general $10,599
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $2,100 · management and general $2,100
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $286,244 · program services $286,244
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $27,050 · program services $26,409 · management and general $641
-
14 · Information technology
total $21,709 · program services $15,838 · management and general $5,871
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $9,463 · program services $9,143 · management and general $320
-
17 · Travel
total $56,017 · program services $56,017
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $0
-
24a · Other expenses: Miscellaneous
total $14,070 · program services $12,095 · management and general $1,975
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $323,598 · end of year $1,705,996
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $3,001,020
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $9,188
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $1,300 · end of year $103,054
-
25 · Other liabilities
end of year $1,250,000
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $322,298 · end of year $3,345,693
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
end of year $17,457
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
Our mission is to align future human machine learning systems with human interests.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Our current work focuses on assessing the capabilities of cutting-edge systems and developing an alignment strategy that could be adopted in the industry today while scaling gracefully to future ML systems.
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Theoretical Research - Released the paper "Formalizing the Presumption of Independence", which introduced the concept of a heuristic estimator, a potentially useful tool in the Eliciting Latent Knowledge problem. Published four posts further outlining work in heuristic estimation as an approach in alignment. See more at https://www.alignment.org/blog/. Hired three summer interns.
Expenses $834,618
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Evaluations Project - Began a new project to evaluate the capabilities of cutting-edge AI systems. Hired six staff to conduct ML research, software engineering, and data generation.
Expenses $469,252
-
Eliciting Latent Knowledge Contest & Retreat - Announced an international award for submissions which made novel progress on the Eliciting Latent Knowledge problem, as outlined in our research report of the same name. Hosted a 1 week research and networking retreat for winners of the prize.
Expenses $54,542 · Grants $262,000
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
-
Mark Xu
Researcher
- Total calculated
- $365,792
- From this org
- $365,792
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $215,792
- Bonus
- $150,000
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $365,792
-
Paul Christiano
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
-
Holden Karnofsky Sec
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Daniel Dewey
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
- 9 · Followed the rebuttable-presumption procedure
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 7: Non-Fixed payments not listed above
- Mark Xu was paid a signing bonus of $150,000.
- Part I, Line 8: Amounts reported on 990 VII pursuant to initial contract exemption described in Regs
- Mark Xu was paid a signing bonus of $150,000.
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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501(c)(3) · research / experiments · CA
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 15 November 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202313199349329641
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