The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is an AI alignment research center at the University of California, Berkeley. Its mission is "to develop the conceptual and technical wherewithal to reorient the general thrust of AI research towards provably beneficial systems."^[1]

Funding

As of June 2022, CHAI has received over $17.1 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[2] nearly $780,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[3] and over $120,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^[4][5]

Evaluation

CHAI is one of the four organizations recommended by Founders Pledge in their cause report on safeguarding the long-term future.^[6]