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FAR.AI

Research lab · Nonprofit research · San Diego, California (address of record)

FAR.AI is a nonprofit that works on AI safety and security through in-house research, grantmaking, and events such as workshops and seminars. It also runs FAR.Labs, a coworking space in downtown Berkeley, California, for people and organizations working on trustworthy and secure AI.123Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
FAR AI, Inc.58
Ownership (separate from openness)
Nonprofit

FAR.AI's transparency page says it incorporated in October 2022 as a 501(c)(3) research nonprofit, after operating for most of 2022 as a fiscally sponsored project of Players Philanthropy Fund.6Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

Legal form
Corporation recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3), per the IRS exempt-organization extract for California and FAR.AI's own transparency and donation pages.864
Headquarters
San Diego, California (address of record)58
Other documented locations
Berkeley, California (FAR.Labs coworking space)3
Founded
20226
Sectors
Research

What is and isn’t public

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FAR.AI publishes research on its website and maintains public research code on GitHub under the AlignmentResearch organization. This catalog has not assessed any FAR.AI artifact separately.27Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

Products

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Cataloged artifacts

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No artifact records in this catalog list FAR.AI. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

Notable documented facts

  • FAR.AI lists research across AI alignment, model robustness, model evaluations, and AI safety and security, including work on adversarial attacks against layered LLM safeguard pipelines and on detecting deception with probes.2
  • FAR.Labs offers visitors free use of its Berkeley space for up to four weeks, with longer memberships priced at operating cost.3

Open positions

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What this catalog does not know

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  • Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

FAR.AI's privacy policy says the site is operated by FAR AI, Inc., a 501(c)(3) AI safety research nonprofit at 501 W Broadway, Suite 1540, San Diego, California. The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists FAR AI Inc at that address as a Section 501(c)(3) organization, under EIN 92-0692207, the EIN FAR.AI gives on its transparency page. FAR.AI's programs page places its FAR.Labs space in Berkeley, California. Neither page reviewed calls one city its headquarters; this record uses the legal address of record.5863

Assessed Oct 2, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR.AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  2. 2.
    FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR.AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  3. 3.
    Programs - FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR.AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  4. 4.
    Donate - FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR.AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  5. 5.
    Privacy Policy - FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR AI, Inc. · Official page · published Feb 8, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  6. 6.
    Transparency - FAR.AI (external site: far.ai)

    FAR.AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  7. 7.
    FAR.AI (AlignmentResearch) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    FAR.AI (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  8. 8.
    Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract - California (eo_ca.csv) (external site: irs.gov)

    Internal Revenue Service · Filing · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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