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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
March 2017
Grant Title
OpenAI — General Support
Organization Name
OpenAI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000,000
Date
March 2017
April 2022
Grant Title
Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,589,002
Date
April 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,355,246
Date
January 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
November 2021
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$9,420,000
Date
November 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (January 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$8,000,000
Date
January 2021
February 2020
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,703,750
Date
February 2020
April 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,922,565
Date
April 2023
August 2016
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2016)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,555,550
Date
August 2016
April 2023
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Fellowships and Research
Organization Name
RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
April 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,300,000
Date
June 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
National Science Foundation — Safe Learning-Enabled Systems
Organization Name
National Science Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
April 2023
July 2022
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,816,710
Date
July 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,025,729
Date
April 2023
October 2017
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,750,000
Date
October 2017
January 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,869,940
Date
January 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
February 2019
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,652,500
Date
February 2019
December 2021
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,537,600
Date
December 2021
July 2017
Grant Title
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
July 2017
May 2019
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2019 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,325,000
Date
May 2019
May 2020
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2020 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
May 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,047,268
Date
November 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program (2022)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,023,322
Date
January 2022
March 2017
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — General Support
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,995,425
Date
March 2017
June 2022
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022
January 2020
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
May 2017
Grant Title
UCLA School of Law — AI Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,536,222
Date
May 2017
June 2023
Grant Title
Apollo Research — Startup Funding
Organization Name
Apollo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,535,480
Date
June 2023
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
October 2017
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,450,016
Date
October 2017
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,433,000
Date
February 2023
February 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
May 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Support for Percy Liang
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,337,600
Date
May 2017
November 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support (November 2022)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
November 2022
May 2018
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
August 2015
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,186,000
Date
August 2015
November 2018
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2018)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,145,000
Date
November 2018
February 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
December 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,111,000
Date
December 2019
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
May 2023
April 2021