Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • 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