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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
April 2024
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute β Forecasting BenchmarkΒ
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2024
April 2024
Grant Title
LASR Labs β Fellowship Program
Organization Name
LASR Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$288,732
Date
April 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β Latent Adversarial Training ProjectΒ
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$45,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Future House β Benchmarks for Biology Research and Development
Organization Name
Future House
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,946,250
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University β Benchmark forΒ Web-Based Tasks
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$547,452
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Good Impressions β Amazon Advertising Campaign
Organization Name
Good Impressions
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
FutureSearch β Benchmark for Language Model ForecastingΒ Β
Organization Name
FutureSearch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$606,600
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub β Biosecurity Course and Club EventsΒ Β
Organization Name
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,936
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Pivotal Research β Summer Research Fellowship (2024)
Organization Name
Pivotal Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$395,608
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
cFactual β Fellowship Program
Organization Name
cFactual
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$220,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) β London Coworking Space
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$821,248
Date
March 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Rational Animations β Video Animation Costs (2024)
Organization Name
Rational Animations
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,980,355
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
FABRIC β General Support
Organization Name
FABRIC
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,436,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
University of Michigan β Scalable Oversight Research
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Straumli β LLM Cyberoffense Benchmark
Organization Name
Straumli
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
β AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$713,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity β AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
February 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Lee Foster β LLM Misuse Database
Organization Name
Lee Foster
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
OPTIC Forecasting β Forecasting Competitions
Organization Name
OPTIC Forecasting
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities β General Support (2024)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,100,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Existential Risk Alliance β Cambridge AI FellowshipΒ
Organization Name
Existential Risks Alliance
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,015,101
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy β Effective Giving Information Sharing
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$595,426
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
FABRIC β Rationality Camp Programs
Organization Name
FABRIC
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Harvard University β AI Interpretability, Controllability, and Safety Research
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
FAR AI β AI Alignment Research Projects
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$645,750
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β CHAI Internships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Nice Light β AI DocumentaryΒ
Organization Name
Nice Light
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$127,070
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Institute for AI Policy & Strategy β General Support
Organization Name
Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,916,898
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Condor Camp β Summer Program for Brazilian Students (2024)
Organization Name
Condor Camp
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$652,465
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
AI Safety Support β Astra Fellowship
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$567,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
University of Illinois Foundation β LLM Hacking Benchmarks
Organization Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$800,000
Date
January 2024
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative β AI Research and Governance Workshop (2023)
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$66,950
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative β Student Group Expenses
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,006
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative β General Support for MIT AI Alignment
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$612,470
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy β General Support
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,286,363
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds β Regranting and Operations Support (December 2023)Β
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,026,513
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism β General Support (EVF USA)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,513,239
Date
December 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute β Analysis of Historical Forecasts
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism β General Support (EVF)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,342,238
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
ETH Zurich Foundation (USA) β Machine Learning Research Support
Organization Name
ETH Zurich Fondation (USA)
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Dandelion Labs β Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamps
Organization Name
Dandelion Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$104,803
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Arcadia Impact β University Group Support
Organization Name
Arcadia Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$405,254
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Synonym Bio β Food Production Research
Organization Name
Synonym Bio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$30,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative β Harvard AI Safety Team
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University β AI Economic Impacts Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Eleuther AI β Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Eleuther AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,642,273
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative β General Support
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$630,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator β AI Safety Technical Program (2023)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support β MATS Program (November 2023)
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$732,631
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β MATS (November 2023)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,641,368
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) β General Support
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Non-Trivial β Fellowship Program (October 2023)
Organization Name
Non-Trivial
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,264,691
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism β Groups Team Support (EVF)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$710,042
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley β AI Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
80,000 Hours β Marketing (October 2023)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism β Groups Team Support (EVF USA)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$276,127
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Should We Studio β Video Production (2023)
Organization Name
Should We Studio
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$245,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute β General Support (October 2023)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,078,461
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Convergent Research β Biosecurity ProjectsΒ
Organization Name
Convergent Research
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$400,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β University Collaboration Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
RAND Corporation β Emerging Technology Initiatives
Organization Name
RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,500,000
Date
October 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Northeastern University β Mechanistic Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Training for Good β Operating Costs and Tarbell Fellowship
Organization Name
Training for Good
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$575,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
OpenMined β Software for AI Audits
Organization Name
OpenMined
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI β Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland β Policy Fellowship (September 2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Matthew Kenney β Language Model Capabilities Benchmarking
Organization Name
Matthew Kenney
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$397,350
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Exscientia β Agonists for Interferon Lambda
Organization Name
Exscientia
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Michael Specter β Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)
Organization Name
Michael Specter
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Surge AI β Data Production for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Surge AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute β Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative β HAIST Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$151,678
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania β AI Governance Roundtables
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β Scalable Oversight Dataset
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
SecureBio β Pathogen Early Warning Project
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$340,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation β AI Safety Communications Centre
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Angela AristizΓ‘bal β ITAM AI Futures Fellowship
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$390,155
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Canada β Toronto Coworking SpaceΒ
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Canada
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$135,378
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Guide Labs β Open Access Interpretability Project
Organization Name
Guide Labs
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$750,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp β AI Safety Bootcamp
Organization Name
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Worldviews Contest Winners
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project β Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Modulo Research β AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Modulo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$408,255
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative β AI Research and Governance Workshop
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,220
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland β Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Blueprint Biosecurity β General Support
Organization Name
Blueprint Biosecurity
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts β General Support (2023)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$620,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts β Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$345,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Utah β Course on Human-AI Alignment
Organization Name
University of Utah
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$31,773
Date
August 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology β AI Trends and Impacts Research (2023)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,911,324
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β Lab Retreat
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$35,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Eradivir β Influenza Antiviral Drug
Organization Name
Eradivir
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact β General Support (July 2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,542,364
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences β Existential Risk Programs (2023)
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$205,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI β General Support (2023)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$460,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Princeton University β Graduate Student Support
Organization Name
Princeton University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
World Health Organization β Responsible Life Sciences Research
Organization Name
World Health Organization
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$900,000
Date
July 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project β General Support
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$170,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative β SERI MATS 4.0
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$428,942
Date
June 2023
June 2023