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Cooperative AI Foundation
Supporting cooperative intelligence research of advanced AI
- 1-20 employees
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Big data
- Deep Tech
- Machine Learning
- Charity
- Social Impact
- Automation
- Science
- Primrose Hill, London, UK
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Company mission
Supporting research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
33% female employees
Our take
Scientific progress is often hard to predict due to most grant research being guided by intrinsic curiosity. The Cooperative AI Foundation funds research in promising areas guided by valuable curiosity, as well as the importance, neglectedness, and tractability of the project.
Advancing the cooperative intelligence of AI can prove to be very beneficial not just today, but over the next 10-20 years. The Cooperative AI Foundation supports research in differential progress, aimed at improving cooperative capabilities (without creating a greater ‘alignment problem’ with which the AI can diverge and become dangerous), leading to significant increases in social welfare.
After receiving a substantial grant from the Center on Emerging Risk Research, the foundation has thus far issued grants to support research at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Oxford. The foundation is actively seeking research proposals and is well set to be a driving force behind cooperative intelligence AI.
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Benefits
- Home office equipment
- Travel expenses to co-locate with colleagues
- 33 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays)
- 5% pension contribution
- Generous learning & development budget
- Health & wellbeing support
Company values
- Motivated by Positive Impact
- Learning from Failure
- Inclusivity in Everything We Do
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$15m
GRANT
Total funding: $15m
Leadership
Lewis Hammond
(Research Director)Affiliate of the Centre for the Governance of AI and DPhil Affiliate at Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford University). Former affiliate of The Future Society and Tutor at the University of Oxford.
Allan Dafoe
(Board of Trustees)Current President of the Centre for the Governance of AI and Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Former Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and was an Assistant Professor at Yale University. Received their PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cooperative AI Foundation
Michelle Virgo (People and Operations Manager)
- CAIF is committed to advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our mission is to improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all, and believe we can only achieve that if we build a diverse team, work inclusively and address underrepresentation and unfairness in all that we do. As a foundation, with access to funding and resources we recognise that our decisions have the potential to reinforce or challenge existing inequality. We aim to challenge inequality where it exists. We operate in a field that is predominantly led by people from more privileged demographics and believe it is essential to amplify other voices and build a more globally representative sector if we are to achieve our goals.