Direct Form 990 pay in the latest returns of 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site is highest at $2.1M at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (2024)
Data as of
- Nonprofits with Part VII pay data
- 39
- Form 990 filings with named pay
- 332
- Highest latest total pay (Mozilla, 2024)
- $6,134,165
- Highest direct pay in a latest return (Ai2, 2024)
- $2,091,490
How much do the nonprofits behind AI research, safety, governance, and open-source software pay their leaders and top staff? Across 39 AI-related nonprofits with machine-readable IRS Form 990 Part VII compensation schedules (332 filings from 2012 to 2025, 3,636 officer and top-staff rows, and 118 people with profiles on this site across 465 rows), 34 report positive compensation in their latest return and 5 report $0. In those 34 paid returns, the highest-compensated person's total runs from $3,822 at DAIR Institute (2024) to $6,134,165 at Mozilla Foundation (2024). Across the 34 organizations with positive pay in their latest return, the median top individual package is $467,739 (interquartile range $285,203 to $938,735); across all 39 organizations with a Part VII schedule, including the 5 reporting $0, the median is $376,166.
At Mozilla Foundation, the top 2024 total of $6,134,165 for Mitchell Baker (chair) consists of $0 from the foundation, $6,098,858 from a related organization, and $35,307 in other compensation; the highest compensation paid directly by Mozilla Foundation in 2024 is $658,458 ($610,704 reportable and $47,754 other compensation) for Mark Surman (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR). Counting pay from the filing nonprofit itself, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) leads in 2024 at $2,091,490 ($2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation) for Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER), followed by David Parekh (CEO) at SRI International ($1,440,820 in 2024: $1,315,357 reportable and $125,463 other compensation), Cecilia Rouse (PRESIDENT) at Brookings Institution ($1,370,231 in 2024: $1,327,657 reportable and $42,574 other compensation), Jason Matheny (President & CEO) at RAND Corporation ($1,182,669 in 2024: $1,093,204 reportable and $89,465 other compensation), Sophia A Muirhead (Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer) at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ($1,149,504 in 2024: $905,684 reportable and $243,820 other compensation) and David Spergel (PRESIDENT) at Simons Foundation ($990,141 in 2024: $928,564 reportable and $61,577 other compensation).
Key findings
- 6 organizations report $1.0M or more for their top earner in their latest return. In their latest Part VII filing, Mozilla Foundation reports $6,134,165 in 2024 ($0 reportable from the organization, $6,098,858 reportable from related organizations and $35,307 other compensation) for Mitchell Baker (chair), Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) reports $2,091,490 in 2024 ($2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation) for Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER), SRI International reports $1,440,820 in 2024 ($1,315,357 reportable and $125,463 other compensation) for David Parekh (CEO), Brookings Institution reports $1,370,231 in 2024 ($1,327,657 reportable and $42,574 other compensation) for Cecilia Rouse (PRESIDENT), RAND Corporation reports $1,182,669 in 2024 ($1,093,204 reportable and $89,465 other compensation) for Jason Matheny (President & CEO) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers reports $1,149,504 in 2024 ($905,684 reportable and $243,820 other compensation) for Sophia A Muirhead (Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer).
- Among dedicated AI safety, alignment, evaluation, and governance nonprofits, Machine Intelligence Research Institute leads at $611,988. In 2024, Machine Intelligence Research Institute paid $611,988 ($599,970 reportable and $12,018 other compensation) to Eliezer Yudkowsky (CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER), ahead of Future of Life Institute (Anthony Aguirre, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/BOARD SECRETARY, $513,622 in 2024), Partnership on AI (Rebecca Finlay, CEO, $368,023 in 2024), Alignment Research Center (Jacob Hilton, PRESIDENT, $341,265 in 2024), Redwood Research (Ryan Greenblatt, CHIEF SCIENTIST, $322,610 in 2024), Center for AI Safety (Dan Hendrycks, Executive Dir., $321,283 in 2024), Center for Humane Technology (Daniel Barcay, Executive Dir., $290,016 in 2024) and Institute for Progress (Amy Nice, DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION COUNSEL, $283,598 in 2024).
- OpenAI Foundation's top Part VII compensation peaked at $1,912,282 in 2016 and is 86% lower in its 2024 return ($264,189). In 2016, OpenAI Foundation paid $1,912,282 ($1,900,000 reportable and $12,282 other compensation) from the nonprofit to Ilya Sutskever (Research Director). In 2024, its highest reported total is $264,189 ($0 reportable from the organization, $240,176 reportable from related organizations and $24,013 other compensation) for Greg Brockman (Dir/Pres (Former)), and 92.1% ($1,551,673 of $1,684,648) of all Part VII compensation comes from related organizations.
- Top-earner pay is at most 1.4% of expenses at every $100.0M-plus institute, and total Part VII pay reaches 51.3% of expenses at Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Across the 10 organizations spending at least $100.0M a year, the highest-paid individual receives 0.13% (Broad Institute) to 1.4% (Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)) of annual expenses. Across the 15 paid organizations spending under $10.0M, top individual pay reaches 31.2% of expenses at Collective Intelligence Project.
- Comparing each organization's first paid Part VII return and its latest paid return, top individual pay is higher in the latest paid return at 27 of 32 organizations (84%). Between the first paid return and the latest paid return, top individual compensation is higher at 27 organizations (including 5—Institute for Progress, Future of Life Institute, Center for AI Safety, Astera Institute and FAR.AI—where it rose in every paid return) and lower at 5 (OpenAI Foundation, Creative Commons, International Computer Science Institute, Broad Institute and Alignment Research Center).
Which AI nonprofits pay their top people the most
In their latest Part VII filings, at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), which leads direct nonprofit compensation in 2024 at $2,091,490 ($2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation) for Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER), 10 listed officers and top employees total $9,075,344 in compensation. Among those 2024 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) earners, 6 have profiles on this site—Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, $2,091,490: $2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation), Peter Clark (SENIOR DIRECTOR, MAC, $1,051,245: $1,004,724 reportable and $46,521 other compensation), Sophie Lebrecht (CHIEF OPERATING AND STRATEGY OFFICER, $890,804: $890,221 reportable and $583 other compensation), Yejin Choi (SENIOR DIRECTOR, COM, $859,104: $831,597 reportable and $27,507 other compensation), Aniruddha Kembhavi (SENIOR DIRECTOR, COM, $794,322: $746,536 reportable and $47,786 other compensation) and Daniel S. Weld (CHIEF SCIENTIST & GE, $776,489: $766,416 reportable and $10,073 other compensation)—alongside 4 other executives (Jennifer Dumas (GENERAL COUNSEL, $952,751: $910,002 reportable and $42,749 other compensation), James Allard (ADVISOR TO THE CEO, $766,016: $738,700 reportable and $27,316 other compensation), Michelle Benedict (SR DIRECTOR, FIN & TREASURER, $504,998: $464,408 reportable and $40,590 other compensation) and Garfield Byrd (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, $388,125: $385,863 reportable and $2,262 other compensation)).
Horizontal stacked bar chart of the highest-compensated person at 34 AI and research nonprofits in their latest Form 990 filing, split into reportable pay from the organization, reportable pay from related organizations, and other compensation.
Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer organization pages and IRS Form 990 series e-file XML, across 332 filings with Part VII compensation schedules (2012–2025), as of 2026-10-21.
Data table
| Organization | Tax year | Highest-paid person | Title as filed | Reportable (org) | Reportable (related) | Other comp. | Total comp. | Paid Part VII people | All Part VII comp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Foundation | 2024 | Mitchell Baker | chair | $0 | $6,098,858 | $35,307 | $6,134,165 | 19 | $10,295,387 |
| Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | 2024 | Ali Farhadi | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $2,077,465 | $0 | $14,025 | $2,091,490 | 10 | $9,075,344 |
| SRI International | 2024 | David Parekh | CEO | $1,315,357 | $0 | $125,463 | $1,440,820 | 28 | $12,899,858 |
| Brookings Institution | 2024 | Cecilia Rouse | PRESIDENT | $1,327,657 | $0 | $42,574 | $1,370,231 | 23 | $10,991,134 |
| RAND Corporation | 2024 | Jason Matheny | President & CEO | $1,093,204 | $0 | $89,465 | $1,182,669 | 24 | $7,748,065 |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2024 | Sophia A Muirhead | Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer | $905,684 | $0 | $243,820 | $1,149,504 | 14 | $8,031,893 |
| Simons Foundation | 2024 | David Spergel | PRESIDENT | $928,564 | $0 | $61,577 | $990,141 | 16 | $7,030,978 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research | 2024 | James M Poterba | PRESIDENT & CEO | $886,629 | $0 | $81,996 | $968,625 | 11 | $3,700,079 |
| Broad Institute | 2023 | Todd Golub | Institute Director | $890,581 | $0 | $56,696 | $947,277 | 13 | $6,710,283 |
| Khan Academy | 2024 | Salman Khan | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $871,261 | $0 | $41,848 | $913,109 | 15 | $6,256,479 |
| Center for a New American Security | 2023 | Richard Fontaine | CEO | $777,325 | $0 | $0 | $777,325 | 8 | $2,622,475 |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 2024 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER | $599,970 | $0 | $12,018 | $611,988 | 12 | $3,339,338 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | 2024 | Maryana Iskander | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $530,923 | $0 | $22,437 | $553,360 | 12 | $4,902,561 |
| Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | 2024 | Kenneth Ford | CEO | $487,996 | $0 | $65,357 | $553,353 | 14 | $4,576,006 |
| Future of Life Institute | 2024 | Anthony Aguirre | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/BOARD SECRETARY | $474,839 | $0 | $38,783 | $513,622 | 7 | $2,088,458 |
| Astera Institute | 2024 | Gary M Miguel | VP OF ENGINEERING | $446,893 | $0 | $52,702 | $499,595 | 7 | $2,096,471 |
| Santa Fe Institute | 2024 | David Krakauer | PRESIDENT | $444,647 | $0 | $27,435 | $472,082 | 10 | $2,585,836 |
| GiveWell | 2024 | Elie Hassenfeld | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | $424,805 | $0 | $38,590 | $463,395 | 12 | $3,296,343 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 2024 | Tatiana Toro | DIRECTOR | $331,194 | $0 | $77,309 | $408,503 | 9 | $2,078,286 |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | 2024 | Cindy Cohn | Executive Director | $352,039 | $0 | $24,127 | $376,166 | 12 | $3,299,990 |
| Partnership on AI | 2024 | Rebecca Finlay | CEO | $337,293 | $0 | $30,730 | $368,023 | 20 | $3,539,629 |
| Alignment Research Center | 2024 | Jacob Hilton | PRESIDENT | $328,284 | $0 | $12,981 | $341,265 | 7 | $1,501,860 |
| Redwood Research | 2024 | Ryan Greenblatt | CHIEF SCIENTIST | $314,922 | $0 | $7,688 | $322,610 | 3 | $751,604 |
| Center for AI Safety | 2024 | Dan Hendrycks | Executive Dir. | $314,534 | $0 | $6,749 | $321,283 | 8 | $1,535,722 |
| Center for Humane Technology | 2024 | Daniel Barcay | Executive Dir. | $273,514 | $0 | $16,502 | $290,016 | 9 | $1,740,220 |
| Institute for Progress | 2024 | Amy Nice | DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION COUNSEL | $250,000 | $0 | $33,598 | $283,598 | 7 | $1,446,928 |
| International Computer Science Institute | 2024 | Chelle White | SENIOR PROGRAM EXECUTIVE | $275,000 | $0 | $0 | $275,000 | 8 | $1,504,198 |
| METR | 2024 | Tao Lin | TECHNICAL STAFF | $184,335 | $84,127 | $5,993 | $274,455 | 11 | $2,586,810 |
| OpenAI Foundation | 2024 | Greg Brockman | Dir/Pres (Former) | $0 | $240,176 | $24,013 | $264,189 | 12 | $1,684,648 |
| Creative Commons | 2024 | Anna Tumadottir | CEO | $230,000 | $0 | $24,431 | $254,431 | 10 | $1,564,420 |
| FAR.AI | 2024 | Adam Gleave | PRESIDENT/CEO | $229,331 | $0 | $8,273 | $237,604 | 6 | $1,038,827 |
| AI4ALL | 2025 | Emily Reid | CEO (THRU 2/2025) | $208,325 | $0 | $0 | $208,325 | 9 | $1,194,232 |
| Collective Intelligence Project | 2024 | Divya Siddarth | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | $78,726 | $0 | $5,096 | $83,822 | 2 | $128,093 |
| DAIR Institute | 2024 | Timnit Gebru | PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | $3,749 | $0 | $73 | $3,822 | 1 | $3,822 |
| Good Ventures | 2023 | Cari Tuna | PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| ARC Prize | 2024 | François Chollet | TREASURER | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| AI Futures Project | 2024 | Daniel Kokotajlo | Executive Director | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Epoch AI | 2024 | Tamay Besiroglu | President | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Ought | 2024 | Owain Evans | BOARD MEMBER & CEO | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
Across the 12 AI safety, alignment, evaluation, and governance nonprofits that report positive pay in their latest return, top individual compensation runs from $3,822 at DAIR Institute (2024) to $611,988 at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (2024). Listing every profiled person compensated in the latest return at each of those 12 organizations: at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (2024, 12 paid people totaling $3,339,338), Eliezer Yudkowsky (CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER, $611,988: $599,970 reportable and $12,018 other compensation), Malo Bourgon (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, $260,535: $241,531 reportable and $19,004 other compensation) and Nate Soares (PRESIDENT, $247,249: $236,614 reportable and $10,635 other compensation), at Future of Life Institute (2024, 7 paid people totaling $2,088,458), Anthony Aguirre (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/BOARD SECRETARY, $513,622: $474,839 reportable and $38,783 other compensation) and Max Tegmark (PRESIDENT, $457,840: $0 reportable from the organization, $457,840 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), at Partnership on AI (2024, 20 paid people totaling $3,539,629), Rebecca Finlay (CEO, $368,023: $337,293 reportable and $30,730 other compensation), Claire Leibowicz (HEAD OF AI AND MEDIA INTEGRITY, $183,672: $172,816 reportable and $10,856 other compensation), Stephanie Ifayemi (SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC POLICY, $181,983: $172,157 reportable and $9,826 other compensation) and Madhulika Srikumar (HEAD OF AI SAFETY, $170,973: $164,734 reportable and $6,239 other compensation), at Alignment Research Center (2024, 7 paid people totaling $1,501,860), Jacob Hilton (PRESIDENT, $341,265: $328,284 reportable and $12,981 other compensation) and Victor Lecomte (RESEARCHER, $141,263: $137,366 reportable and $3,897 other compensation), at Redwood Research (2024, 3 paid people totaling $751,604), Ryan Greenblatt (CHIEF SCIENTIST, $322,610: $314,922 reportable and $7,688 other compensation), at Center for AI Safety (2024, 8 paid people totaling $1,535,722), Dan Hendrycks (Executive Dir., $321,283: $314,534 reportable and $6,749 other compensation), Nick Beckstead (Policy Lead, $212,529: $198,071 reportable and $14,458 other compensation) and Oliver Zhang (Managing Director, $167,824: $155,573 reportable and $12,251 other compensation), at Center for Humane Technology (2024, 9 paid people totaling $1,740,220), Tristan Harris (President, $259,434: $243,592 reportable and $15,842 other compensation), at Institute for Progress (2024, 7 paid people totaling $1,446,928), Amy Nice (DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION COUNSEL, $283,598: $250,000 reportable and $33,598 other compensation), at METR (2024, 11 paid people totaling $2,586,810), Beth Barnes (CTO/CEO, $254,790: $172,737 reportable from the organization, $75,637 reportable from related organizations and $6,416 other compensation) and Emma Abele (CEO/COO, $249,619: $190,395 reportable from the organization, $52,375 reportable from related organizations and $6,849 other compensation), at FAR.AI (2024, 6 paid people totaling $1,038,827), Adam Gleave (PRESIDENT/CEO, $237,604: $229,331 reportable and $8,273 other compensation), at Collective Intelligence Project (2024, 2 paid people totaling $128,093), Divya Siddarth (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, $83,822: $78,726 reportable and $5,096 other compensation) and Saffron Huang (BOARD MEMBER, $44,271: $41,863 reportable and $2,408 other compensation) and at DAIR Institute (2024, 1 paid person totaling $3,822), Timnit Gebru (PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, $3,822: $3,749 reportable and $73 other compensation).
In their latest filings, 6 organizations report compensation from related organizations (Mozilla Foundation, OpenAI Foundation, Future of Life Institute, METR, Creative Commons and Alignment Research Center). At OpenAI Foundation in 2024, 12 listed officers and directors received $1,684,648 in total compensation, of which $12,933 was reportable from the nonprofit itself, $1,551,673 (92.1%) was reportable from related organizations, and $120,042 was other compensation. The 11 profiled people with positive compensation on OpenAI Foundation's 2024 return are Greg Brockman (Dir/Pres (Former), $264,189: $0 reportable from the organization, $240,176 reportable from related organizations and $24,013 other compensation), Larry Summers (Director, $143,702: $0 reportable from the organization, $143,702 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Adam D'Angelo (Director, $140,000: $0 reportable from the organization, $140,000 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Bret Taylor (Director, $140,000: $0 reportable from the organization, $140,000 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Sue Desmond-Hellmann (Director, $140,000: $0 reportable from the organization, $140,000 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Fidji Simo (Director, $127,500: $0 reportable from the organization, $127,500 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Nicole Seligman (Director, $127,500: $0 reportable from the organization, $127,500 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation), Ilya Sutskever (Director (Former), $119,538: $0 reportable from the organization, $108,149 reportable from related organizations and $11,389 other compensation), Sam Altman (Dir/Pres/CEO, $113,674: $0 reportable from the organization, $65,638 reportable from related organizations and $48,036 other compensation), Paul Nakasone (Director, $99,030: $0 reportable from the organization, $99,030 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation) and Zico Kolter (Director, $53,494: $0 reportable from the organization, $53,494 reportable from related organizations and $0 other compensation). Another 5 organizations with Part VII XML schedules report $0 for every listed officer and trustee in their latest return (Good Ventures, ARC Prize, AI Futures Project, Epoch AI and Ought); among them, Ought paid up to $183,935 in 2023 ($163,953 reportable and $19,982 other compensation) for Justin D Reppert (MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH) and reported $0 across all listed officers in 2024.
How top pay relates to revenue and expenses
Across the 10 organizations with at least $100.0M in latest-filing expenses—led in total spending by Broad Institute ($752,531,863 in expenses and $831,109,480 in revenue in 2023), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ($600,137,430 in expenses and $714,064,929 in revenue in 2024) and RAND Corporation ($527,283,384 in expenses and $534,596,094 in revenue in 2024)—the highest-paid person receives between 0.13% of annual expenses at Broad Institute (Todd Golub, Institute Director, $947,277, or 0.11% of $831,109,480 revenue) and 1.4% at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (Ali Farhadi, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, $2,091,490, or 1.0% of $205,844,739 revenue). Combined compensation across all listed Part VII officers and top employees at those 10 institutions ranges from 0.89% of expenses at Broad Institute ($6,710,283 across 13 paid people) to 10.2% at Brookings Institution ($10,991,134 across 23 paid people).
At the 15 paid organizations with under $10.0M in annual expenses, Part VII schedules represent up to 51.3% of annual spending. The 5 organizations with the highest total Part VII compensation as a share of expenses are Machine Intelligence Research Institute at 51.3% ($3,339,338 across 12 paid people on $6,508,701 in 2024 expenses and $1,534,913 in revenue), Collective Intelligence Project at 47.7% ($128,093 across 2 paid people on $268,349 in 2024 expenses and $1,908,186 in revenue), Partnership on AI at 42.3% ($3,539,629 across 20 paid people on $8,372,133 in 2024 expenses and $9,023,889 in revenue), Institute for Progress at 40.2% ($1,446,928 across 7 paid people on $3,597,698 in 2024 expenses and $1,075,917 in revenue) and Creative Commons at 40.0% ($1,564,420 across 10 paid people on $3,912,384 in 2024 expenses and $2,439,364 in revenue). Across all 34 paid organizations, measured by the highest-paid individual alone as a share of expenses, the top 5 organizations are Collective Intelligence Project at 31.2% (Divya Siddarth, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, $83,822 on $268,349 in expenses), Mozilla Foundation at 14.9% (Mitchell Baker, chair, $6,134,165 on $41,199,350 in expenses, with $658,458 or 1.6% paid directly by the organization), Redwood Research at 11.0% (Ryan Greenblatt, CHIEF SCIENTIST, $322,610 on $2,922,498 in expenses), Machine Intelligence Research Institute at 9.4% (Eliezer Yudkowsky, CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER, $611,988 on $6,508,701 in expenses) and Institute for Progress at 7.9% (Amy Nice, DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION COUNSEL, $283,598 on $3,597,698 in expenses).
How pay changed over the filing years
Comparing each organization's first paid Part VII return and its latest paid return across the 32 organizations with 2 or more paid filings, top individual compensation is higher in the latest paid return at 27 organizations (84%) and lower at 5: OpenAI Foundation (-86%, with $1,912,282 in 2016, a peak of $1,912,282 in 2016, and $264,189 in 2024), Creative Commons (-34%, with $385,938 in 2013, a peak of $385,938 in 2013, and $254,431 in 2024), International Computer Science Institute (-15%, with $322,320 in 2013, a peak of $389,962 in 2014, and $275,000 in 2024), Broad Institute (-8%, with $1,027,400 in 2012, a peak of $2,030,573 in 2018, and $947,277 in 2023) and Alignment Research Center (-7%, with $365,792 in 2022, a peak of $365,792 in 2022, and $341,265 in 2024). Across all 332 Part VII filings from 2012 to 2025, the top 6 single-year individual compensation peaks (counting each person's peak year per organization) are Mitchell Baker (chair) at Mozilla Foundation ($6,934,602 in 2022: $0 reportable from the organization, $6,903,089 reportable from related organizations and $31,513 other compensation), William Jeffrey (CEO (THRU 12/1/2021)) at SRI International ($2,672,028 in 2021: $2,586,160 reportable and $85,868 other compensation), Oren Etzioni (CEO (THRU 9/30), DIRECTOR) at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) ($2,646,007 in 2022: $2,635,099 reportable and $10,908 other compensation), Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER) at Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) ($2,091,490 in 2024: $2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation), Eric S Lander (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CEO) at Broad Institute ($2,030,573 in 2018: $1,862,087 reportable and $168,486 other compensation) and Ilya Sutskever (Research Director) at OpenAI Foundation ($1,912,282 in 2016: $1,900,000 reportable and $12,282 other compensation).
Line chart of annual highest individual total compensation from 2016 to 2024 for Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), SRI International, RAND Corporation, Machine Intelligence Research Institute and OpenAI Foundation.
Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer organization pages and IRS Form 990 series e-file XML, across 332 filings with Part VII compensation schedules (2012–2025), as of 2026-10-21.
Data table
| Organization | Paid filings | First paid year | First top pay | Peak year | Peak top pay | Latest paid year | Latest top pay | Change (first to latest) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | 9 | 2016 | $95,834 (Niket Tandon) | 2022 | $2,646,007 (Oren Etzioni) | 2024 | $2,091,490 (Ali Farhadi) | +2,082% |
| Partnership on AI | 8 | 2017 | $34,295 (Terah Lyons) | 2023 | $407,367 (Rebecca Finlay) | 2024 | $368,023 (Rebecca Finlay) | +973% |
| Mozilla Foundation | 11 | 2014 | $1,035,114 (Mitchell Baker) | 2022 | $6,934,602 (Mitchell Baker) | 2024 | $6,134,165 (Mitchell Baker) | +493% |
| Redwood Research | 4 | 2021 | $57,550 (Nathaniel Thomas) | 2022 | $398,873 (Daniel Ziegler) | 2024 | $322,610 (Ryan Greenblatt) | +461% |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 11 | 2014 | $113,371 (Eliezer Yudkowsky) | 2024 | $611,988 (Eliezer Yudkowsky) | 2024 | $611,988 (Eliezer Yudkowsky) | +440% |
| Institute for Progress | 4 | 2021 | $54,231 (Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney) | 2024 | $283,598 (Amy Nice) | 2024 | $283,598 (Amy Nice) | +423% |
| Future of Life Institute | 4 | 2021 | $124,136 (Jared Brown) | 2024 | $513,622 (Anthony Aguirre) | 2024 | $513,622 (Anthony Aguirre) | +314% |
| GiveWell | 12 | 2013 | $112,291 (Elie Hassenfeld) | 2024 | $463,395 (Elie Hassenfeld) | 2024 | $463,395 (Elie Hassenfeld) | +313% |
| Center for Humane Technology | 8 | 2017 | $81,000 (Tristan Harris) | 2024 | $290,016 (Daniel Barcay) | 2024 | $290,016 (Daniel Barcay) | +258% |
| Center for a New American Security | 11 | 2012 | $264,224 (Nathaniel C Fick) | 2023 | $777,325 (Richard Fontaine) | 2023 | $777,325 (Richard Fontaine) | +194% |
| Brookings Institution | 13 | 2012 | $506,468 (N Strobe Talbott) | 2024 | $1,370,231 (Cecilia Rouse) | 2024 | $1,370,231 (Cecilia Rouse) | +171% |
| Center for AI Safety | 3 | 2022 | $121,604 (Dan Hendrycks) | 2024 | $321,283 (Dan Hendrycks) | 2024 | $321,283 (Dan Hendrycks) | +164% |
| Wikimedia Foundation | 13 | 2012 | $218,391 (Sue Gardner) | 2021 | $798,632 (Katherine Maher) | 2024 | $553,360 (Maryana Iskander) | +153% |
| Astera Institute | 4 | 2021 | $206,793 (Michael A. Nielsen) | 2024 | $499,595 (Gary M Miguel) | 2024 | $499,595 (Gary M Miguel) | +142% |
| Khan Academy | 12 | 2013 | $388,565 (Shantanu Sinha) | 2022 | $1,206,022 (Salman Khan) | 2024 | $913,109 (Salman Khan) | +135% |
| AI4ALL | 8 | 2018 | $90,317 (Tess Posner) | 2025 | $208,325 (Emily Reid) | 2025 | $208,325 (Emily Reid) | +131% |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 13 | 2012 | $248,239 (Helene Barcelo) | 2024 | $408,503 (Tatiana Toro) | 2024 | $408,503 (Tatiana Toro) | +65% |
| Santa Fe Institute | 12 | 2013 | $295,661 (Geoffrey West) | 2021 | $526,656 (David Krakauer) | 2024 | $472,082 (David Krakauer) | +60% |
| Simons Foundation | 11 | 2014 | $635,112 (Gerald Fischbach) | 2023 | $1,057,449 (David Spergel) | 2024 | $990,141 (David Spergel) | +56% |
| RAND Corporation | 13 | 2012 | $769,573 (Michael D Rich) | 2019 | $1,289,403 (Michael D Rich) | 2024 | $1,182,669 (Jason Matheny) | +54% |
| Ought | 6 | 2018 | $120,577 (Andreas Stuhlmueller) | 2023 | $183,935 (Justin D Reppert) | 2023 | $183,935 (Justin D Reppert) | +53% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | 11 | 2014 | $248,652 (Shari Steele) | 2024 | $376,166 (Cindy Cohn) | 2024 | $376,166 (Cindy Cohn) | +51% |
| National Bureau of Economic Research | 13 | 2012 | $680,056 (James M Poterba) | 2019 | $1,400,727 (Martin Feldstein) | 2024 | $968,625 (James M Poterba) | +42% |
| FAR.AI | 2 | 2023 | $167,857 (Karl Berzins) | 2024 | $237,604 (Adam Gleave) | 2024 | $237,604 (Adam Gleave) | +42% |
| SRI International | 12 | 2013 | $1,172,984 (Curtis Carlson) | 2021 | $2,672,028 (William Jeffrey) | 2024 | $1,440,820 (David Parekh) | +23% |
| Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | 13 | 2012 | $497,677 (Kenneth Ford) | 2023 | $785,011 (Kenneth Ford) | 2024 | $553,353 (Kenneth Ford) | +11% |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 12 | 2013 | $1,143,442 (E James Prendergast) | 2015 | $1,395,609 (E James Prendergast) | 2024 | $1,149,504 (Sophia A Muirhead) | +1% |
| Alignment Research Center | 3 | 2022 | $365,792 (Mark Xu) | 2022 | $365,792 (Mark Xu) | 2024 | $341,265 (Jacob Hilton) | -7% |
| Broad Institute | 12 | 2012 | $1,027,400 (Eric S Lander) | 2018 | $2,030,573 (Eric S Lander) | 2023 | $947,277 (Todd Golub) | -8% |
| International Computer Science Institute | 12 | 2013 | $322,320 (Nelson Morgan) | 2014 | $389,962 (Nelson Morgan) | 2024 | $275,000 (Chelle White) | -15% |
| Creative Commons | 12 | 2013 | $385,938 (Catherine Casserly) | 2013 | $385,938 (Catherine Casserly) | 2024 | $254,431 (Anna Tumadottir) | -34% |
| OpenAI Foundation | 9 | 2016 | $1,912,282 (Ilya Sutskever) | 2016 | $1,912,282 (Ilya Sutskever) | 2024 | $264,189 (Greg Brockman) | -86% |
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has 2 tax-exempt entities in the filings: its initial entity (EIN 27-5430153, filings 2015–2022) reported $95,834 in 2016 ($92,920 reportable and $2,914 other compensation) for Niket Tandon (RESEARCH SCIENTIST) in its first paid return and peaked at $259,788 in 2018 ($231,515 reportable and $28,273 other compensation) for Niket Tandon (RESEARCH SCIENTIST); its current operating entity (EIN 82-4083177, filings 2021–2024) reported $750,878 in 2021 ($750,878 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Yejin Choi (SENIOR RESEARCH MANAGER, MOSAIC), peaked at $2,646,007 in 2022 ($2,635,099 reportable and $10,908 other compensation) for Oren Etzioni (CEO (THRU 9/30), DIRECTOR), and reported $2,091,490 in 2024 ($2,077,465 reportable and $14,025 other compensation) for Ali Farhadi (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER). At OpenAI Foundation, the 2016 return paid 8 listed people from the nonprofit, including 5 with profiles on this site: Ilya Sutskever (Research Director, $1,912,282: $1,900,000 reportable and $12,282 other compensation), Ian Goodfellow (Research Scientist, $819,862: $808,243 reportable and $11,619 other compensation), John Schulman (Senior Researcher, $280,596: $275,000 reportable and $5,596 other compensation), Diederik P. Kingma (Technical Staff, $182,433: $172,917 reportable and $9,516 other compensation) and Greg Brockman (CTO, $180,801: $175,000 reportable and $5,801 other compensation). In 2017–2023, direct nonprofit peaks on OpenAI Foundation's returns included John Schulman (Senior Researcher, $725,305 in 2017: $718,728 reportable and $6,577 other compensation), Diederik P. Kingma (Technical Staff, $558,342 in 2017: $545,833 reportable and $12,509 other compensation), Wojciech Zaremba (Research Engineer, $515,593 in 2017: $508,584 reportable and $7,009 other compensation), Jakub Pachocki (Research Lead, $431,509 in 2018: $416,667 reportable and $14,842 other compensation), Andrej Karpathy (Technical Staff, $427,586 in 2017: $424,231 reportable and $3,355 other compensation), Szymon Sidor (Technical Staff, $421,018 in 2018: $413,334 reportable and $7,684 other compensation), Dario Amodei (Research Director, $400,065 in 2018: $384,167 reportable and $15,898 other compensation), Greg Brockman (Director/CTO, $271,002 in 2017: $264,201 reportable and $6,801 other compensation), Shivon Zilis (Director, $200,000 in 2020: $200,000 reportable and $0 other compensation) and Emmett Shear (CEO, $3,720 in 2023: $3,720 reportable and $0 other compensation). In 2019, 7 profiled people reported compensation from both the nonprofit and a related organization: David Luan (VP Engineering, $504,048: $242,500 reportable from the organization, $250,265 reportable from related organizations and $11,283 other compensation), John Schulman (Technical Staff, $478,572: $216,667 reportable from the organization, $250,265 reportable from related organizations and $11,640 other compensation), Chris Olah (Technical Staff, $430,842: $286,073 reportable from the organization, $133,485 reportable from related organizations and $11,284 other compensation), Scott Gray (Technical Staff, $430,675: $74,167 reportable from the organization, $343,599 reportable from related organizations and $12,909 other compensation), Christopher Berner (Technical Staff, $402,321: $72,500 reportable from the organization, $312,765 reportable from related organizations and $17,056 other compensation), Ilya Sutskever (Research Dir., $287,936: $29,167 reportable from the organization, $234,274 reportable from related organizations and $24,495 other compensation) and Greg Brockman (Director/CTO, $72,214: $29,167 reportable from the organization, $12,525 reportable from related organizations and $30,522 other compensation).
Across the 10 safety, alignment, evaluation, and governance nonprofits with 2 or more paid filing years, top individual compensation is higher in the latest paid return than in the first paid return at 9 and lower at 1: at Partnership on AI, first paid return $34,295 in 2017 ($33,989 reportable and $306 other compensation) for Terah Lyons (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR), peak $407,367 in 2023 ($355,440 reportable and $51,927 other compensation) for Rebecca Finlay (CEO), and latest paid return $368,023 in 2024 ($337,293 reportable and $30,730 other compensation) for Rebecca Finlay (CEO), at Redwood Research, first paid return $57,550 in 2021 ($56,250 reportable and $1,300 other compensation) for Nathaniel Thomas (CEO/PRESIDENT), peak $398,873 in 2022 ($384,872 reportable and $14,001 other compensation) for Daniel Ziegler (MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF), and latest paid return $322,610 in 2024 ($314,922 reportable and $7,688 other compensation) for Ryan Greenblatt (CHIEF SCIENTIST), at Machine Intelligence Research Institute, first paid return $113,371 in 2014 ($103,120 reportable and $10,251 other compensation) for Eliezer Yudkowsky (Director/Sec) and latest paid return $611,988 in 2024 ($599,970 reportable and $12,018 other compensation) for Eliezer Yudkowsky (CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER), at Institute for Progress, first paid return $54,231 in 2021 ($54,231 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney (CO-CEO) and latest paid return $283,598 in 2024 ($250,000 reportable and $33,598 other compensation) for Amy Nice (DISTINGUISHED IMMIGRATION COUNSEL), at Future of Life Institute, first paid return $124,136 in 2021 ($124,136 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Jared Brown (DIRECTOR OF US AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY) and latest paid return $513,622 in 2024 ($474,839 reportable and $38,783 other compensation) for Anthony Aguirre (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/BOARD SECRETARY), at Center for Humane Technology, first paid return $81,000 in 2017 ($81,000 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Tristan Harris (President & ED) and latest paid return $290,016 in 2024 ($273,514 reportable and $16,502 other compensation) for Daniel Barcay (Executive Dir.), at Center for AI Safety, first paid return $121,604 in 2022 ($119,465 reportable and $2,139 other compensation) for Dan Hendrycks (President) and latest paid return $321,283 in 2024 ($314,534 reportable and $6,749 other compensation) for Dan Hendrycks (Executive Dir.), at Ought, first paid return $120,577 in 2018 ($120,577 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Andreas Stuhlmueller (PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER) and latest paid return $183,935 in 2023 ($163,953 reportable and $19,982 other compensation) for Justin D Reppert (MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH), at FAR.AI, first paid return $167,857 in 2023 ($161,060 reportable and $6,797 other compensation) for Karl Berzins (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER) and latest paid return $237,604 in 2024 ($229,331 reportable and $8,273 other compensation) for Adam Gleave (PRESIDENT/CEO) and at Alignment Research Center, first paid return $365,792 in 2022 ($365,792 reportable and $0 other compensation) for Mark Xu (Researcher) and latest paid return $341,265 in 2024 ($328,284 reportable and $12,981 other compensation) for Jacob Hilton (PRESIDENT). Across all 118 profiled people who appear in the Form 990 filings (90 compensated in at least one return and 28 listed at $0 as board members or officers, with 7—Adam Gleave, Beth Barnes, Cari Tuna, Eli Lifland, Holden Karnofsky, Jacob Hilton and Peter Eckersley—appearing on returns across multiple organizations), the expandable table below links every profiled person and reports their compensation as filed.
All 118 profiled people in Form 990 filings (125 organization records)
| Person | Organization | Title as filed (peak return) | Tax year | Reportable (org) | Reportable (related) | Other comp. | Total comp. | Latest filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oren Etzioni | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | CEO (THRU 9/30), DIRECTOR | 2022 | $2,635,099 | $0 | $10,908 | $2,646,007 | 2023: $186,500 |
| Ali Farhadi | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | 2024 | $2,077,465 | $0 | $14,025 | $2,091,490 | 2024 (same) |
| Ilya Sutskever | OpenAI Foundation | Research Director | 2016 | $1,900,000 | $0 | $12,282 | $1,912,282 | 2024: $119,538 |
| Jason Matheny | RAND Corporation | President & CEO | 2024 | $1,093,204 | $0 | $89,465 | $1,182,669 | 2024 (same) |
| Peter Clark | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | SENIOR DIRECTOR, MAC | 2024 | $1,004,724 | $0 | $46,521 | $1,051,245 | 2024 (same) |
| Yejin Choi | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | SENIOR DIRECTOR, COM | 2023 | $944,045 | $0 | $27,516 | $971,561 | 2024: $859,104 |
| Sophie Lebrecht | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | CHIEF OPERATING AND STRATEGY OFFICER | 2024 | $890,221 | $0 | $583 | $890,804 | 2024 (same) |
| Ian Goodfellow | OpenAI Foundation | Research Scientist | 2016 | $808,243 | $0 | $11,619 | $819,862 | 2016 (same) |
| Aniruddha Kembhavi | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | SENIOR DIRECTOR, COM | 2024 | $746,536 | $0 | $47,786 | $794,322 | 2024 (same) |
| Kenneth Ford | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | CEO | 2023 | $723,610 | $0 | $61,401 | $785,011 | 2024: $553,353 |
| Daniel S. Weld | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | CHIEF SCIENTIST & GE | 2024 | $766,416 | $0 | $10,073 | $776,489 | 2024 (same) |
| John Schulman | OpenAI Foundation | Senior Researcher | 2017 | $718,728 | $0 | $6,577 | $725,305 | 2019: $478,572 |
| Matthew E. Peters | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, NLP | 2022 | $673,613 | $0 | $40,767 | $714,380 | 2022 (same) |
| Hanna Hajishirzi | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | SENIOR DIRECTOR, NLP | 2023 | $633,225 | $0 | $5,852 | $639,077 | 2023 (same) |
| Eero Simoncelli | Simons Foundation | CENTER DIR., FLATIRO | 2022 | $559,215 | $0 | $68,369 | $627,584 | 2023: $607,238 |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | CHAIR, HEAD RESEARCHER | 2024 | $599,970 | $0 | $12,018 | $611,988 | 2024 (same) |
| Diederik P. Kingma | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2017 | $545,833 | $0 | $12,509 | $558,342 | 2018: $393,570 |
| Wojciech Zaremba | OpenAI Foundation | Research Engineer | 2017 | $508,584 | $0 | $7,009 | $515,593 | 2017 (same) |
| Anthony Aguirre | Future of Life Institute | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/BOARD SECRETARY | 2024 | $474,839 | $0 | $38,783 | $513,622 | 2024 (same) |
| Karen Myers | SRI International | SR DIRECTOR, COMPUTER SCIENCE | 2017 | $448,583 | $0 | $58,289 | $506,872 | 2024: $506,779 |
| David Luan | OpenAI Foundation | VP Engineering | 2019 | $242,500 | $250,265 | $11,283 | $504,048 | 2019 (same) |
| Max Tegmark | Future of Life Institute | BOARD PRESIDENT | 2022 | $466,421 | $0 | $0 | $466,421 | 2024: $457,840 |
| Jakub Pachocki | OpenAI Foundation | Research Lead | 2018 | $416,667 | $0 | $14,842 | $431,509 | 2018 (same) |
| Chris Olah | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2019 | $286,073 | $133,485 | $11,284 | $430,842 | 2019 (same) |
| Scott Gray | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2019 | $74,167 | $343,599 | $12,909 | $430,675 | 2019 (same) |
| Andrej Karpathy | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2017 | $424,231 | $0 | $3,355 | $427,586 | 2017 (same) |
| Szymon Sidor | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2018 | $413,334 | $0 | $7,684 | $421,018 | 2018 (same) |
| Lila Tretikov | Wikimedia Foundation | Executive Director-thru Mar/16 | 2016 | $390,273 | $0 | $18,077 | $408,350 | 2016 (same) |
| Rebecca Finlay | Partnership on AI | CEO | 2023 | $355,440 | $0 | $51,927 | $407,367 | 2024: $368,023 |
| Christopher Berner | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2019 | $72,500 | $312,765 | $17,056 | $402,321 | 2019 (same) |
| Olga Troyanskaya | Simons Foundation | DEP. DIR. GENOMICS | 2015 | $381,100 | $0 | $21,200 | $402,300 | 2015 (same) |
| Kristen DiCerbo | Khan Academy | CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER | 2024 | $378,433 | $0 | $23,363 | $401,796 | 2024 (same) |
| Dario Amodei | OpenAI Foundation | Research Director | 2018 | $384,167 | $0 | $15,898 | $400,065 | 2018 (same) |
| Daniel Ziegler | Redwood Research | MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF | 2022 | $384,872 | $0 | $14,001 | $398,873 | 2023: $186,218 |
| Paul Scharre | Center for a New American Security | Executive Vice President | 2023 | $393,352 | $0 | $0 | $393,352 | 2023 (same) |
| Nelson Morgan | International Computer Science Institute | PRESIDENT | 2014 | $317,451 | $0 | $72,511 | $389,962 | 2021: $0 |
| Bonnie Dorr | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | Senior Research Scientist | 2016 | $300,825 | $0 | $55,163 | $355,988 | 2021: $320,795 |
| James F. Allen | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | Senior Research Scientist | 2020 | $315,093 | $0 | $33,321 | $348,414 | 2020 (same) |
| Jacob Hilton | Alignment Research Center | PRESIDENT | 2024 | $328,284 | $0 | $12,981 | $341,265 | 2024 (same) |
| Michael Mahoney | International Computer Science Institute | VICE PRESIDENT | 2021 | $267,131 | $0 | $57,018 | $324,149 | 2024: $177,236 |
| Ryan Greenblatt | Redwood Research | CHIEF SCIENTIST | 2024 | $314,922 | $0 | $7,688 | $322,610 | 2024 (same) |
| Dan Hendrycks | Center for AI Safety | Executive Dir. | 2024 | $314,534 | $0 | $6,749 | $321,283 | 2024 (same) |
| Jerry Tworek | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2020 | $141,894 | $151,060 | $18,168 | $311,122 | 2020 (same) |
| Roberto Pieraccini | International Computer Science Institute | Former President | 2013 | $266,148 | $0 | $37,057 | $303,205 | 2013 (same) |
| William J. Clancey | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition | Associate Director/Sr. Research Scientist | 2013 | $246,000 | $0 | $56,948 | $302,948 | 2014: $295,808 |
| Michael A. Nielsen | Astera Institute | RESEARCH FELLOW | 2022 | $278,646 | $0 | $12,322 | $290,968 | 2024: $285,207 |
| Melanie Mitchell | Santa Fe Institute | PROFESSOR | 2023 | $219,871 | $0 | $69,470 | $289,341 | 2024: $262,339 |
| Greg Brockman | OpenAI Foundation | Director/CTO | 2017 | $264,201 | $0 | $6,801 | $271,002 | 2024: $264,189 |
| Tristan Harris | Center for Humane Technology | Co-Founder/ED | 2022 | $249,899 | $0 | $17,466 | $267,365 | 2024: $259,434 |
| Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | 2024 | $241,531 | $0 | $19,004 | $260,535 | 2024 (same) |
| Beth Barnes | METR | CTO/CEO | 2024 | $172,737 | $75,637 | $6,416 | $254,790 | 2024 (same) |
| Emma Abele | METR | CEO/COO | 2024 | $190,395 | $52,375 | $6,849 | $249,619 | 2024 (same) |
| Nate Soares | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | PRESIDENT | 2024 | $236,614 | $0 | $10,635 | $247,249 | 2024 (same) |
| Trevor Darrell | International Computer Science Institute | RESEARCHER-GROUP LEADER | 2014 | $200,450 | $0 | $46,094 | $246,544 | 2014 (same) |
| Jacob Hilton | OpenAI Foundation | Technical Staff | 2020 | $114,803 | $118,890 | $7,445 | $241,138 | 2020 (same) |
| Terah Lyons | Partnership on AI | Executive Dir. | 2020 | $240,516 | $0 | $0 | $240,516 | 2021: $156,393 |
| Adam Gleave | FAR.AI | PRESIDENT/CEO | 2024 | $229,331 | $0 | $8,273 | $237,604 | 2024 (same) |
| Beth Barnes | Alignment Research Center | EVALS PROJECT LEAD | 2023 | $224,576 | $0 | $5,989 | $230,565 | 2023 (same) |
| Peter Eckersley | Partnership on AI | DIRECTOR OF | 2019 | $227,921 | $0 | $0 | $227,921 | 2019 (same) |
| David Wolpert | Santa Fe Institute | PROFESSOR | 2023 | $183,152 | $0 | $37,889 | $221,041 | 2024: $196,801 |
| Nick Beckstead | Center for AI Safety | Policy Lead | 2024 | $198,071 | $0 | $14,458 | $212,529 | 2024 (same) |
| Shivon Zilis | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2020 | $200,000 | $0 | $0 | $200,000 | 2022: $75,000 |
| Tess Posner | AI4ALL | CEO | 2021 | $187,632 | $0 | $11,684 | $199,316 | 2025: $159,264 |
| Alice Xiang | Partnership on AI | Head of FTA | 2020 | $197,829 | $0 | $0 | $197,829 | 2020 (same) |
| Pradeep Dasigi | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | RESEARCH SCIENTIST | 2020 | $182,062 | $0 | $14,048 | $196,110 | 2021: $185,448 |
| Stephanie Ifayemi | Partnership on AI | HEAD OF POLICY | 2023 | $166,250 | $0 | $19,659 | $185,909 | 2024: $181,983 |
| Claire Leibowicz | Partnership on AI | HEAD OF AI AND MEDIA INTEGRITY | 2024 | $172,816 | $0 | $10,856 | $183,672 | 2024 (same) |
| Kshitij Sachan | Redwood Research | MEMBER OF TECH. STAFF (THRU 11/23) | 2023 | $173,210 | $0 | $9,029 | $182,239 | 2023 (same) |
| Peter Eckersley | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Computer Scientist | 2017 | $167,633 | $0 | $12,243 | $179,876 | 2017 (same) |
| Madhulika Srikumar | Partnership on AI | HEAD OF AI SAFETY | 2024 | $164,734 | $0 | $6,239 | $170,973 | 2024 (same) |
| Mark Brakel | Future of Life Institute | DIRECTOR OF POLICY | 2022 | $138,654 | $0 | $29,667 | $168,321 | 2022 (same) |
| Oliver Zhang | Center for AI Safety | Managing Director | 2024 | $155,573 | $0 | $12,251 | $167,824 | 2024 (same) |
| Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRETARY | 2016 | $161,484 | $0 | $5,706 | $167,190 | 2023: $0 |
| Carroll L. Wainwright | Partnership on AI | RESEARCH SCI | 2019 | $160,061 | $0 | $0 | $160,061 | 2020: $158,218 |
| Evan Hubinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | EMPLOYEE | 2022 | $149,922 | $0 | $7,753 | $157,675 | 2022 (same) |
| Larry Summers | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $143,702 | $0 | $143,702 | 2024 (same) |
| Victor Lecomte | Alignment Research Center | RESEARCHER | 2024 | $137,366 | $0 | $3,897 | $141,263 | 2024 (same) |
| Adam D'Angelo | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $140,000 | $0 | $140,000 | 2024 (same) |
| Bret Taylor | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $140,000 | $0 | $140,000 | 2024 (same) |
| Sue Desmond-Hellmann | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $140,000 | $0 | $140,000 | 2024 (same) |
| Fidji Simo | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $127,500 | $0 | $127,500 | 2024 (same) |
| Nicole Seligman | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $127,500 | $0 | $127,500 | 2024 (same) |
| Sam Altman | OpenAI Foundation | Dir/Pres/CEO | 2024 | $0 | $65,638 | $48,036 | $113,674 | 2024 (same) |
| Eli Lifland | Ought | Experimenter | 2021 | $101,250 | $0 | $0 | $101,250 | 2021 (same) |
| Paul Nakasone | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $99,030 | $0 | $99,030 | 2024 (same) |
| Divya Siddarth | Collective Intelligence Project | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 2024 | $78,726 | $0 | $5,096 | $83,822 | 2024 (same) |
| Owain Evans | Ought | BOARD DIRECTOR | 2020 | $83,045 | $0 | $0 | $83,045 | 2024: $0 |
| Will Hurd | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2022 | $0 | $75,000 | $0 | $75,000 | 2022 (same) |
| Zico Kolter | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2024 | $0 | $53,494 | $0 | $53,494 | 2024 (same) |
| Stefan Heck | SRI International | BOARD MEMBER | 2024 | $51,500 | $0 | $0 | $51,500 | 2024 (same) |
| Saffron Huang | Collective Intelligence Project | BOARD MEMBER | 2024 | $41,863 | $0 | $2,408 | $44,271 | 2024 (same) |
| Timnit Gebru | DAIR Institute | PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 2024 | $3,749 | $0 | $73 | $3,822 | 2024 (same) |
| Emmett Shear | OpenAI Foundation | CEO | 2023 | $3,720 | $0 | $0 | $3,720 | 2023 (same) |
| Adam Gleave | METR | DIRECTOR | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Alex Acero | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Director & Delegate, Division IX | 2019 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2019 (same) |
| Bruce Schneier | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Member | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Cari Tuna | GiveWell | BOARD MEMBER | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Cari Tuna | Good Ventures | PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR | 2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2023 (same) |
| Daniel Kokotajlo | AI Futures Project | Executive Director | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Dustin Moskovitz | Good Ventures | SECRETARY, TREASURER, DIRECTOR | 2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2023 (same) |
| Eli Lifland | AI Futures Project | Researcher | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Elon Musk | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2017 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2017 (same) |
| Eric Horvitz | Partnership on AI | CHAIR | 2023 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2023 (same) |
| Fei-Fei Li | AI4ALL | TRUSTEE | 2025 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2025 (same) |
| François Chollet | ARC Prize | TREASURER | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Hal Abelson | Creative Commons | BOARD MEMBER (THRU 12/6/2015) | 2015 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2015 (same) |
| Helen Toner | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2022 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2022 (same) |
| Hervé Bourlard | International Computer Science Institute | TRUSTEE | 2016 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2016 (same) |
| Holden Karnofsky | OpenAI Foundation | Director | 2021 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2021 (same) |
| Jaan Tallinn | Future of Life Institute | DIRECTOR | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Jacek M. Zurada | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | VP - Technical Activities | 2014 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2014 (same) |
| John Henry Holland | Santa Fe Institute | TRUSTEE | 2015 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2015 (same) |
| Lawrence O'Higgins Hall | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | DIRECTOR & VP, PUBLICATION SERVICES AN | 2021 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2021 (same) |
| Leila De Floriani | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Director & Delegate, Division VIII | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Olga Russakovsky | AI4ALL | BOARD CHAIR | 2025 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2025 (same) |
| Owen Cotton-Barratt | Ought | BOARD MEMBER | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Pamela Samuelson | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Member | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Paul Christiano | Alignment Research Center | BOARD MEMBER | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Rabab Kreidieh Ward | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Director & Vice President, Educational Activities | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Romeo Dean | AI Futures Project | Researcher | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Tadayoshi Kohno | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Member | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Tamay Besiroglu | Epoch AI | President | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Thomas Larsen | AI Futures Project | Researcher | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
| Verity Harding | Partnership on AI | OFFICER OF T | 2019 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2019 (same) |
| Victoria Krakovna | Future of Life Institute | DIRECTOR | 2024 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 2024 (same) |
Career data comes from the biographies on this site and from OpenAlex author records, as of 22 October 2026. People whose OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mixed are left out of citation figures.