Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $359,100 CAD (approximately $250,087 at the time of conversion) to Trajectory Labs to support its provision of office space for people working on AI safety in Toronto. The grant will also support field-building events to build the Toronto AI safety community, led by Mario Gibney.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $42,807 to Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative to support a multi-week bootcamp aimed at building cybersecurity expertise among students interested in AI safety.
This follows our October 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended six grants totaling $20,000 to winning teams in the AI Safety category of the LLM Agents Hackathon hosted by Berkley RDI.
These prizes include:
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 over two years to the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute to support cage-free campaigns in South Africa.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in cage-free reforms.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $134,200 to Dartmouth to support a one-year pilot of a fellowship for early-stage economics Ph.D. students. The fellowship, led by Paul Niehaus and Heidi Williams, will provide mentorship, financial support, and networking opportunities to impact-driven students.
This falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,500,000 over three years to Animal Advocacy Careers for general support. Animal Advocacy Careers provides training, career coaching, and educational resources to animal advocates to increase the impact of their work.
This follows our January 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $600,000 over two years to Produtor do Bem Certifição to support its farm animal welfare certification program for producers in Latin America.
Many Brazilian corporations have made pledges to follow standards for farm animal welfare, but there are relatively few farm animal welfare certifiers in Brazil. We believe that supporting a credible certifier will help ensure that corporations follow through on high-standard pledges.
This follows our January 2024 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $1,557,000 to Timaeus for operating expenses. Timaeus seeks to use singular learning theory to better understand how training data and algorithmic architectures determine the generalization behavior of models, which could lead to valuable applications in AI alignment.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $75,000 to the National Academy of Sciences to support a study on the future of biological databases. This work will engage dozens of academic, private sector, and non-profit experts involved in the creation, curation, and use of biomedical databases and related data tools. The goal of the study is to produce a report outlining actions to increase database sustainability.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $660,000 to MATS Research to support research projects undertaken during the winter 2024-2025 ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) cohort. The MATS program is an educational seminar and independent research program that provides talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the fields of AI alignment, interpretability, and governance.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.