Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $30,000 to Virtue AI to fund research prizes at the NeurIPS 2024 Competition for LLM and Agent Safety.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Funding Type: Grants
AI Safety Hungary — AI Safety Capacity Building
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $22,450 to AI Safety Hungary to support its capacity building work, which includes educational seminars, personalized career guidance for talented individuals, and support for fellowship programs run by local groups.
This grant was funded via a request for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
GovAI — General Support (November 2024)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $600,000 over three years to GovAI for general support. GovAI conducts research on AI governance and helps build the AI governance research community. (This is separate from the other grant we made to GovAI in November 2024.)
This follows our October 2024 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
GovAI — General Support (November 2024)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $400,000 over two years to GovAI for general support. GovAI conducts research on AI governance and helps build the AI governance research community.
This follows our October 2024 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Global Shield — Global Catastrophic Risks Advocacy
Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $2,320,000 over two years to Global Shield to support its work advocating for policy measures that aim to mitigate global catastrophic risks. Global Shield will focus its initial efforts on the U.S. and Australia.
This falls within our focus areas of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.
Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest (2024)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $76,382 to Eon Essay Contest to support an essay contest on The Precipice by Toby Ord. This contest will award cash prizes to winners, and is open to high school students and young people in other age brackets.
This follows our January 2023 support for the previous iteration of this contest and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Global Challenges Project — General Support (November 2024)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $496,000 to the Global Challenges Project to support student workshops on AI safety and biosecurity.
This follows our March 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Rutgers University — AI Takeoff Speeds Paper
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $26,675 to Rutgers University to support Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini in producing a paper on how quickly AI capabilities might advance.
This grant was funded via a request for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
ERA – AI Fellowships (2025)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £1,876,458 (approximately $2,344,072 at the time of conversion) to ERA to support two research fellowship programs focused on reducing risks from advanced AI, in addition to a conference on technical AI governance.
This follows our April 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Nederlandse Vissersbond — R&D on Humane Wild Fish Capture
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €170,000 (approximately $176,392 at the time of conversion) over three years to Nederlandse Vissersbond to support R&D on FloMo, a more humane instrument for capturing wild fish. The research will be led by Dr. Edward Schram and will be made freely available to the public.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in fish welfare.