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title: "Alignment Research Center: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research institute based in Berkeley, California, dedicated to the alignment of advanced artificial intelligence with human values and priorities. Founded by former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, ARC established an evaluation team to study the potentially harmful capabilities of present-day AI models."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alignment-research-center
type: Organization
wikidata: Q117834778
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_Research_Center
website: http://alignment.org/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Alignment Research Center

> The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research institute based in Berkeley, California, dedicated to the alignment of advanced artificial intelligence with human values and priorities. Founded by former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, ARC established an evaluation team to study the potentially harmful capabilities of present-day AI models.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2021-04-01
- Headquarters: Berkeley
- Status: private
- Website: http://alignment.org/
- Also known as: ARC, alignment.org

## Key people

- Paul Christiano, founder (American artificial intelligence researcher)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Alignment Research Center, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alignment-research-center#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117834778, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_Research_Center

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