Redwood Research
Redwood Research is a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit focused on technical AI safety research, founded in 2021.
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Redwood Research is a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit focused on technical AI safety research, founded in 2021. It studies the risks that arise if powerful AI systems act against the interests of their developers or humanity, and pioneered the field of AI control: protocols that maintain safety guarantees even when a model's alignment cannot be fully verified. Its work includes the alignment-faking study conducted with Anthropic, and it advises governments and frontier AI labs.
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Redwood Research is a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit focused on technical AI safety research, founded in 2021.
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Pre-deployment dangerous capability evaluations of frontier AI models (autonomy, cyberattacks, AI R&D acceleration, etc.)…
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AI monitoring and analytics tools that help companies track, explain and improve the performance of their AI and ML models
Series C · $100M · 2026-02
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AI red teaming, contextual model evaluation, bias bounty challenges and independent algorithmic assessment tools
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