Center For AI Safety is a research and field-building nonprofit dedicated to reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence through safety research, advocacy, and field-building. Center For AI Safety's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #89,068 among 497,670 tracked accounts.
Center For AI Safety was co-founded by Dan Hendrycks and Oliver Zhang and is affiliated with the Center for AI Safety Action Fund. The organization published the Statement on AI Risk, which argues that mitigating the risk of human extinction from AI should be treated as a global priority on par with threats such as pandemics and nuclear war. Center For AI Safety has attracted backing from major philanthropic sources: FTX previously funded the organization, and according to an October 2023 court filing reported by Bloomberg Law, FTX paid Center For AI Safety $6.5 million between May and September 2022. Following FTX's bankruptcy, its debtors sought court permission to subpoena Center For AI Safety for records related to those transfers, an information and asset-recovery request that did not constitute an allegation of wrongdoing against Center For AI Safety.
Center For AI Safety previously received backing from Open Philanthropy, with Good Ventures' grants database recording a general-support grant of $4,025,729 in April 2023 under Open Philanthropy's Potential Risks from Advanced AI program. Center For AI Safety has published 359 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 20 accounts a total of 34 times, reflecting sustained engagement from the AI safety community.
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Center For AI Safety draws a technically and professionally engaged audience on the platform. The accounts that follow Center For AI Safety include 42 founders, 13 angel investors, 18 influencers and 1 VCs. Among its notable followers are Tarun Chitra, Cuy Sheffield, Roon, Martin Shkreli, Leap and Eric Schmidt.