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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2023
Grant Title
Adam Jermyn — Independent AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,231
Date
January 2023
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest
Organization Name
AI Alignment Awards
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
August 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
December 2016
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$32,000
Date
December 2016
June 2018
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
November 2020
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$63,839
Date
November 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$235,000
Date
September 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
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
April 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — Situational Awareness Research
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$443,716
Date
April 2023
February 2018
Grant Title
AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Scholarships
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$18,800
Date
February 2023
June 2020
Grant Title
Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons
Organization Name
Apart Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative – SERI Summer Fellowships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
March 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022
November 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
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
January 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
July 2017
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Core Support and CHAI Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$403,890
Date
July 2017
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
January 2020
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Lab Retreat
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$35,000
Date
July 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Language Model Alignment Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000
Date
June 2022
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$195,000
Date
November 2021
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
January 2021
Grant Title
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research
Organization Name
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Brian Christian — Psychology Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
March 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
May 2021
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 2021
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
September 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
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
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
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
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
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
April 2022
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
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
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
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
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
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
May 2020
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
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
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023)
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$245,000
Date
April 2023
October 2022
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Cornell University — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Cornell University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$342,645
Date
February 2023
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
November 2018
Grant Title
Daniel Kang, Jacob Steinhardt, Yi Sun, and Alex Zhai — Study of the Robustness of Machine Learning Models
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,351
Date
November 2018
March 2017
Grant Title
Distill Prize for Clarity in Machine Learning — General Support
Organization Name
Distill Prize for Clarity in Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
March 2017
March 2022
Grant Title
Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
November 2016
Grant Title
Electronic Frontier Foundation — Artificial Intelligence Scenarios and Social Impacts
Organization Name
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$199,000
Date
November 2016
February 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
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 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,922,565
Date
April 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — FAR Labs Office Space
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$280,000
Date
March 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$460,000
Date
July 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Inverse Scaling Prize
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$49,500
Date
December 2022
March 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
October 2021
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
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 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
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
June 2016
Grant Title
George Mason University — Research into Future Artificial Intelligence Scenarios
Organization Name
George Mason University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$277,435
Date
June 2016
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$246,564
Date
December 2021
December 2022
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$239,061
Date
December 2022
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
May 2020
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
April 2021
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
November 2022
Grant Title
Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
May 2021