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ARC

Top-tier alignment research org whose evaluations are used by frontier labs.

HQ🇺🇸 US
Est2021
Size11-50
EU AI ActLimited
alignment.org
Score
50.0 / 100
Evidence
3 items
Confidence
low

Strong safety posture with established governance frameworks and active risk management.

Strengths:Governance Maturity, Technical Safety, Risk Assessment, External Engagement
Weaknesses:Regulatory Readiness
Focus Areas
alignment researchmodel organismseliciting latent knowledge

Strengths

  • Strong social impact assessment

Risks

  • Regulatory score (20) - significant gap
  • Low evidence coverage (3 items)
  • Uneven profile - Regulatory lags Engagement by 45 points
Table of Contents

Security Assessment

Security-relevant indicators for vendor evaluation

Security Posture
55
TS-01dim: 60
Red Teaming & Pre-deployment Testing
Adversarial testing before deployment
TS-05dim: 60
Robustness & Adversarial Resilience
Resistance to adversarial attacks
RA-01dim: 50
Sector-Specific Risk Assessment
Risk analysis for deployment context
RA-03dim: 50
Dual-Use & Misuse Risk
Dangerous capability awareness
RA-07dim: 50
Incident History & Track Record
Past incidents and response quality
EE-04dim: 65
Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Bug bounty or CVE reporting process
Incident History
ARC incident records sourced from AIAAIC Repository and public reporting.
Integration: AIAAIC, OECD AI Incidents Monitor
Third-Party Audits
External audit reports, SOC 2 attestations, and ISO certifications verified where published.
Sources: Company filings, registry lookups
CVE & Disclosures
Known vulnerabilities and security advisories from NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, and vendor pages.
Sources: NVD, GHSA, vendor disclosure pages

Dimension Breakdown

GM
Governance Maturitypreliminary
Published policies, corporate structure, safety mandate, whistleblowing, executive commitment.
55
TS
Technical Safetypreliminary
Benchmarks, adversarial robustness, fine-tuning safety, watermarking, model cards, research output.
60
RA
Risk Assessmentpreliminary
Dangerous capability evaluations, thresholds, external testing, bug bounty, halt conditions.
50
RR
Regulatory Readinesspreliminary
ISO 42001, EU AI Act compliance, GPAI obligations, international commitments, incident reporting.
20
EE
External Engagementpreliminary
Survey participation, research support, transparency, behavior specs, open-source contributions.
65

Social Impact & Safety Profile

Strong

ARC (Alignment Research Center), founded by Paul Christiano, is one of the most influential alignment research organisations. Their work on alignment evaluation and model organisms of misalignment is widely cited and directly used by frontier labs. Research is entirely mission-driven toward reducing existential AI risk.

alignment evaluationmodel organismsexistential risk

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Data Sources & Methodology

Scoring methodology v0.1 · 40 indicators · 6 frameworks

Last assessment: 2026-03-23 · Confidence: low · Evidence: 3 items

NIST AI RMF · EU AI Act · ISO 42001 · FLI AI Safety Index · MLCommons AILuminate · METR

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Scores reflect publicly available information. A low score may indicate limited transparency rather than poor safety practices.