AI Lab Watch

I stopped maintaining this website in September 2025. Work on what AI companies should do in terms of safety and what they are doing is now being done by METR, Guidelight, Midas, and others.

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Weighted score	28%	20%	18%	5%	4%	3%	1%
Risk assessment	44%	29%	34%	6%	6%	1%	0%	27% weight
Scheming risk prevention	4%	8%	3%	2%	2%	2%	2%	21% weight
Boosting safety research	70%	52%	35%	25%	0%	13%	8%	14% weight
Misuse prevention	14%	4%	9%	0%	1%	0%	0%	12% weight
Prep for extreme security	3%	5%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	12% weight
Risk info sharing	35%	13%	32%	0%	28%	0%	0%	8% weight
Planning	14%	26%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	6% weight

Up to date as of September 2025

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Anthropic

DeepMind

OpenAI

DeepMind

Boosting safety research 52%

63%

Publishing safety research

Deep access for external safety researchers

100%

Mentoring external safety researchers

AI companies should do (extreme-risk-focused) safety research, and they should publish it to boost safety at other AI companies. Additionally, they should assist external safety researchers by sharing deep model access and mentoring.

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Publishing safety research

63%

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Mentoring external safety researchers

100%

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Boosting safety research 52%

Publishing safety research

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