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The Alignment Project Research Agenda

The Alignment Project Research Agenda

Aug 01, 2025 by Benjamin Hilton

The Alignment Project is a global fund of over £15 million, dedicated to accelerating progress in AI control and alignment research. It is backed by an international coalition of governments, industry, venture capital and philanthropic funders. 

This sequence sets out the research areas we are excited to fund – we hope this list of research ideas presents a novel contribution to the alignment field. We have deliberately focused on areas that we think the AI safety community currently underrates. 

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13The Alignment Project by UK AISI
Mojmir, Benjamin Hilton, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving, Joseph Bloom, Tomek Korbak, David Africa, Edmund Lau
2mo
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5Research Areas in Information Theory and Cryptography (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Simon Marshall
2mo
0
5Research Areas in Computational Complexity Theory (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Simon Marshall
2mo
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3Research Areas in Economic Theory and Game Theory (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Cecilia Wood
2mo
0
3Research Areas in Probabilistic Methods (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Jacob Pfau, Benjamin Hilton
2mo
0
8Research Areas in Learning Theory (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
David Africa, Edmund Lau
2mo
0
8Research Areas in Evaluation and Guarantees in Reinforcement Learning (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Jacob Pfau, Benjamin Hilton
2mo
0
9Research Areas in Cognitive Science (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Geoffrey Irving
2mo
0
9Research Areas in Interpretability (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Joseph Bloom
2mo
0
7Research Areas in Benchmark Design and Evaluation (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Jacob Pfau, Benjamin Hilton
2mo
0
6Research Areas in Methods for Post-training and Elicitation (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Jacob Pfau, Benjamin Hilton
2mo
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16Research Areas in AI Control (The Alignment Project by UK AISI)
Julian Stastny, Tomek Korbak, Mojmir, Buck, Alan Cooney
2mo
0