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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 – Forecasting Benchmark
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2024
April 2024
Grant Title
LASR Labs — 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 — Latent Adversarial Training Project
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 — 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 — Benchmark for 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 — 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 – Benchmark for Language Model Forecasting
Organization Name
FutureSearch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$606,600
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub – Biosecurity Course and Club Events
Organization Name
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,936
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Pivotal Research — 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 — 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) — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — LLM Cyberoffense Benchmark
Organization Name
Straumli
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
— 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Cambridge AI Fellowship
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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — AI Documentary
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 — 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 — 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 – 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Regranting and Operations Support (December 2023)
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 – 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 — 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 – 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) — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 – 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 — 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 — MATS Program (November 2023)
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$732,631
Date
November 2023
November 2023
