Organization Registry

Defends and extends digital rights of users at risk globally, combining technical support, policy engagement, and advocacy. Hosts RightsCon, the world's leading human rights and tech summit.

Independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society. Conducts accessible research and public engagement on the social implications of AI and data, including algorithmic accountability, AI in the NHS, and biometric technology.

Works to make AI more diverse and inclusive through education programs for underrepresented high school students in partnership with universities (Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU, Princeton).

Founded by Meta and IBM with 50+ organizations (ETH Zurich, CERN, and 140+ members in 23 countries). Promotes open-source AI innovation. In 2025 launched roadmap for Responsible and Strategic Open-Source AI Innovation in Europe in collaboration with ETH Zurich's AI Ethics and Policy Network.

Research institute at New York University examining the social implications of AI, with a particular focus on power, accountability, and labor. Known for influential annual AI Now Reports.

UK's national institute for data science and AI, founded in 2015 by the UK Government. Conducts interdisciplinary AI research including safety, fairness, transparency, and public benefit applications.

Collective co-founded by Joy Buolamwini that highlights algorithmic bias through art, media, and science. Provides space for people to voice concerns about coded bias and advocates for accountability in AI systems.

European nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on algorithmic decision-making with social relevance. Maintains a shared inventory of AI-related principles and published the Automating Society report.

Nonprofit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen focused on AI for the common good. Produces open models (OLMo), datasets, and research on AI safety, fairness, and societal impact.

Nonprofit building a multidisciplinary responsible AI ecosystem. Maintains a large global community of AI ethics practitioners, publishes the Responsible AI Impact Report, and hosts the Responsible AI Community Summit.

AI safety company conducting research into interpretability, AI alignment, and responsible scaling policies (RSP). Publishes AI Safety Levels (ASL) and model evaluation frameworks that have influenced industry norms.

Research center studying cyberspace and its implications for law and governance. Leads AI ethics research and policy, including AI and human rights, privacy, democracy, and platform governance.

Nonprofit policy and research institute focused on ensuring AI and digital policies promote fairness, accountability, and democratic values. Publishes the annual AI and Democratic Values Index covering 80+ countries.

Research center at UC Berkeley focused on developing conceptual and technical approaches to reorient AI research toward provably beneficial systems that remain aligned with human values.

Envisions technology that supports well-being, sense-making, democracy, and the ability to tackle global challenges. Co-founded by former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris. Advocates for humane technology design.

Georgetown University think tank providing data-driven analysis of emerging technologies' implications for national and international security. Advises US government on AI policy including export controls, R&D strategy, and AI workforce.

Nonprofit based in India undertaking interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies. Focus areas include AI governance, digital accessibility, data privacy, and open internet.

Produces rigorous policy and social-science research on frontier AI governance. Pioneered the field of AI governance research. Runs seasonal fellowships (UK and DC) and a Research Scholar program. Alumni work at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, US/UK/EU governments.

Politically independent ThinkDoTank with European and global outreach. Ensures primacy of the human being in a world of data, based on European legal and value-based frameworks. Active with EU institutions and international academia.

Examines the relationship between datafication and social justice. Highlights the politics and impacts of data-driven processes, big data and surveillance, especially on marginalized communities.

Advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation. Focuses on how data and AI affect communities, labor, and institutions.

Nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world since 1990. Advocates against AI surveillance, discriminatory algorithms, and invasive tech. Key litigation and legislative intervention organization.

Newly established body of the European Commission responsible for implementing and enforcing the EU AI Act, overseeing GPAI models, and supporting international AI governance coordination.

Nonprofit crowdsourcing organization building audit frameworks for AI and autonomous systems. Addresses ethics, bias, privacy, trust, and cybersecurity to reduce risk from AI at a societal scale.

Nonprofit working to steer transformative technologies away from large-scale catastrophe. Known for publishing open letters on AI risk (2015 and 2023 Pause Letter), the Asilomar AI Principles, and AI safety research grants.

Nonprofit catalyst for privacy leadership, scholarship, and data practices. Conducts research on AI and privacy at the intersection of emerging technology and policy, including GDPR, AI Act, and US privacy law.

Conducts foundational AI safety research (specification, robustness, assurance). Publishes the Frontier Safety Framework with Critical Capability Levels. Active in AI governance bodies internationally.

Launched in 2020 by 29 nations to translate the OECD AI Principles into practical guidance. Working groups cover responsible AI, data governance, future of work, and innovation. Merged operations with OECD AI Observatory in 2024.

Coalition of directors, writers, and actors advocating for ethical AI use in entertainment. Seeks to establish industry-wide protections against unauthorized use of digital likenesses and automation of creative roles. Lobbies for legislative protections to ensure AI remains an assistive tool.

Operates an AI Ethics Board with multidisciplinary representation. Develops tools like AI Fairness 360, Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, and AI Explainability 360 as open-source contributions. Active in EU and UN AI governance.

Develops technical standards for the ethical design of autonomous and intelligent systems. IEEE 7000-series addresses ethical considerations during system design, algorithmic bias (7003), transparency (7001), and children's data (7004).

Examines AI's impact on the world of work — automation, job displacement, skills gaps, and labor rights. Published a landmark review of 245 AI ethics guidelines in 2025, highlighting gaps in labor protections.

Based in Oxford's Faculty of Philosophy, brings together world-leading thinkers to provide independent perspectives on AI ethics, shaping innovation and public debate. Runs the Accelerator Fellowship Programme.

Cross-cultural and transdisciplinary center building responsible and beneficial AI for humans and ecological good. Active in international AI governance dialogues and the Beijing AI Principles.

Under the auspices of UNESCO, IRCAI conducts applied AI research for the SDGs and hosts the Global Forum on the Ethics of AI. Provides AI expertise and capacity building to developing countries.

Runs the AI for Good platform connecting AI innovators with UN agencies and governments to apply AI to the Sustainable Development Goals. Hosts the annual AI for Good Global Summit.

Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge (with partners at Oxford, Imperial, and UC Berkeley) focused on the opportunities and challenges of advanced AI for humanity over the coming decades.

See Think Tank section — this centre bridges academic research and policy on long-term AI implications.

Implements a six-principle responsible AI standard (fairness, reliability & safety, privacy & security, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability) across all products. Includes a sensitive use review process and AI impact assessments.

Anchor institution (with Harvard Berkman Klein Center) of the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund. Conducts evidence-based research and pilot projects to guide AI for the public good.

Defines humanity's place in an algorithm-driven world through technical and policy research in ethical, safe, and inclusive AI. Publishes the State of AI Ethics reports (biannual).

Tracks 1,000+ national AI policy initiatives across 69 countries. Maintains the OECD AI Principles (2019, updated 2024) — the most widely endorsed international AI framework — and supports implementation by member states.

Conducts AI safety research and policy engagement. Preparedness Framework defines risk thresholds across cybersecurity, CBRN, persuasion, and model autonomy. Runs OpenAI Academy for AI literacy.

Multidisciplinary research and teaching department at the University of Oxford focused on the societal implications of the internet and AI. Strong on AI and governance, disinformation, platform economics.

Multi-stakeholder nonprofit bringing together AI companies, civil society, academics, and NGOs to formulate best practices in AI. Members include Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, ACLU, and hundreds of others.

Global nonprofit providing cutting-edge tools for responsible AI oversight and compliance. Offers the RAISE Pathways framework (1,100+ controls mapped to 17 global standards) and AI certifications for organizations.

Leading multidisciplinary research institute at Stanford advancing AI R&D for long-term benefit. Publishes the influential annual AI Index Report. Focuses on AI for diverse, equitable, and inclusive outcomes.

Founded by ETH Zurich and EPFL (Switzerland's two federal universities). Leverages the Alps Supercomputer to accelerate AI research, education, and innovation while addressing societal and ethical challenges. Linked to the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy at ETH Zurich.

Global NGO focused on responsible and beneficial AI governance. Organizes structured stakeholder consultations with governments and civil society (including at AI summits). Publishes governance priority roadmaps.

Evaluates frontier AI models for safety and security risks. Leads the international network of AI Safety Institutes (INAIS) established at the Bletchley Summit. Published the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.

Hosts the Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) and Ethical Impact Assessment (EIA) tools. Provides a global resource for policymakers, regulators, academics, private sector, and civil society to address challenges posed by AI.

Produced the 2024 report 'Governing AI for Humanity', calling for a UN-wide AI governance strategy including an independent international scientific panel and annual global dialogue. Underpins the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance (2026).

Housed at NIST within the Department of Commerce. Develops guidelines, tools, and testing methodologies for safe and trustworthy AI. Authored the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).