# Scale AI

**Type:** Company  
**Domain:** ai-alignment  
**Founded:** 2016  
**CEO:** Alexandr Wang  
**Focus:** AI deployment contractor, data labeling and model evaluation infrastructure  

## Overview

Scale AI is a leading AI deployment contractor with significant Department of Defense relationships. The company provides data labeling, model evaluation, and AI deployment infrastructure for frontier AI systems.

## Key Personnel

- **Alexandr Wang** — CEO, co-author of MAIM deterrence framework

## Timeline

- **2025-03-01** — CEO Alexandr Wang co-authored Superintelligence Strategy paper with Dan Hendrycks (CAIS) and Eric Schmidt, proposing MAIM deterrence regime for AI development

## Significance

Scale AI's CEO co-authoring the MAIM framework signals that leading AI deployment contractors with military relationships have aligned on deterrence infrastructure as the primary coordination mechanism for superintelligence development.