| Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI UK)Networks, bodies, events and media · also on Labs | A non-profit that researches how governments and companies should govern advanced AI.Profile- Owner or parent
- GovAI, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN 99-4000294); GovAI UK is its subsidiary, a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (15883729)
- Founded or opened
- 2016 at Yale University; an academic centre at the University of Oxford from 2018; relaunched as an independent non-profit on 29 Oct 2021
- Lab director or lead
- Ben Garfinkel — Executive Director (Director since 2021; Acting Director at the Oct 2021 relaunch)
- Other leaders
- John Halstead — Director of Research; Valerie Belu — Director of Talent; Katherine Gilmore — Head of Operations; Georg Arndt — Chief of Staff; Robert Trager — International Governance Lead; Markus Anderljung — Principal Researcher; Allan Dafoe — Founding Director (now listed as an affiliate)
- Site and address as published
- offices in London and Washington, DC; staff in San Francisco and remote
- Headcount
- 58 people named in the Team section (affiliates and board excluded; count made from the page) — read 31 Oct 2026 — https://www.governance.ai/people (single source)
- What it does
- A non-profit research organisation on how AI should be governed. It began at Yale in 2016, moved to Oxford in 2018, has been independent since 2021, and now has offices in London and Washington. It researches threat modelling, risk management, the economics of AI, frontier AI regulation, geopolitics, military use and technical governance. Its fellowship takes over 100 people a year.
- Research groups or focus
- Threat modeling; Risk management; Economics of AI; Frontier AI regulation; Geopolitics and military applications of AI; Military and civilian adoption of AI; Technical governance; Frontier research
- Notable outputs
- input to UK AI Security Institute research programmes, to the International AI Safety Report and to frontier companies' safety and security frameworks; publications in Science and NeurIPS (titles not given on the page)
- Selected papers
- Not stated (research page would not open)
- Funding or budget as published
- Not stated. Funders named at the 2021 relaunch: Open Philanthropy, the Centre for Emerging Risk Research and Effective Altruism Funds (no amounts)
- Uk government links
- "Input to ... UK AI Security Institute research programs" (About page)
- Status now
- Active, with offices in London and Washington, DC.
Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: one source (GovAI's own pages). Sources - governance.ai/about-us
- governance.ai/post/the-centre-for-the-governance
- governance.ai/people
| London (registered office EC4M 7AN) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · governance.ai/about-us · governance.ai/post/the-centre-for-the-governance · governance.ai/people | one source |