List of AI Research Centers

AI — its research applications, its political economy, and its underlying technology — are evolving at a breakneck pace. Follow these groups to keep up to date.

Community- and Justice-Focused#

• AI Now Institute
• Algorithmic Justice League, Joy Buolamwini
• Knowing Machines project, including this legal explainer on generative AI
• Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, Lauren Klein
• Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute, including their Data Workers’ Inquiry project.
• AI for the People: “To represent the interests of black communities within high level policy meetings within government, industry and led academic research into the development of rights respecting AI.”
• AI Accountability Lab
• Centre for the Governance of AI
• All Tech is Human
• Ada Lovelace Institute
• TechTonic Justice

University-Based or Research-Focused#

• UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI)
• Berkeley Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), an organization that works on better formal characterizations of the AI safety problem. Founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
• Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models
• Stanford Center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
• Stanford’s One Hundred Year Study on AI, releasing reports every 5 years. 2016, 2021 released so far.
• Jokingly: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

Mapping These Groups & Their Arguments#

• Mapping AI focuses on the US AI policy landscape.
• Michel Justen’s “A Guide to the AI Tribes” outlines the schools of thought on AI and its politics.