Institutional dossier
The documented history of Alignment Research Center: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2017-06-12 to 2026-09-09 · 3 undated
25 claims · 17 sources · 25 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: ARC, the institution that reports incubating ARC Evals; distinct from its evaluation team and from METR.
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Chronology
Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.
2022Record year · 3 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
A research team, not a separately established subsidiary. The current source contains later edits.
Retrospectively stated incubation year; exact start and legal separation dates unknown.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
Retrospective organizational account; the end of employment is not established.
Hiring year only; no current continuity or exact end inferred.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Activity: reported performed · System: A snapshot of Claude fine-tuned with Anthropic engineers; exact snapshot unspecified
Qualification and date notes
Anthropic’s account of work performed, not independent verification or certification. The evaluated snapshot is not identified as deployed Claude 2. Source actor is ARC, not silently ARC Evals or METR. Exact start date and completion are unknown; this does not assert a current engagement.
The source says since fall 2022; the year is the available schema precision, not January 1. The end is unknown; continuing work is described at report time only.
2023Record year · 2 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
Not a current appointment; planned METR board involvement was later declined and is not a held role.
Role reported in a dated announcement, inspected in its later edited expression.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Announced
Activity: announced · separation announcement
Qualification and date notes
Announcement only. No completed legal incorporation, staff transfer, ownership transfer or legal succession established. The source had not yet settled a new name in its announcement framing. Its current text includes a later Christiano/AISI note; the original September expression was not authenticated.
Displayed article date, not incorporation or completed separation. The inspected expression includes retrospective edits with unknown dates.
Date unknownRecord year · 3 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
The source names ARC rather than its Evals unit. “Safety audits” is Anthropic’s terminology, not an assertion of independent certification. This is the developer’s account of work performed, unlike future evaluation-design promises in RSP v1.0.
The text says collaboration began in fall 2022; no exact evaluation or inspected-expression publication date established.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
The source names ARC. It says ARC lacked fine-tuning and final deployed-model access; results do not certify GPT-4-launch safety.
Underlying evaluation dates and publication date of this inspected PDF expression are not established.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Activity: reported performed · System: Early GPT-4 versions supplied to ARC; not the final deployed GPT-4 model
Qualification and date notes
Developer-reported performance, not independent verification of execution, findings, effectiveness or certification. The source names Alignment Research Center (ARC); ARC Evals and METR are not substituted. Final-model experiments and ARC fine-tuning are described as further work needed.
The inspected passage does not date the engagement. Model release and source access dates are not evaluation dates.