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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
Grant Title
Support for Career Development and Transitions
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,841,768
Date
January 1970
February 2015
Grant Title
ASUC — Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course
Organization Name
Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2015
April 2015
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
July 2015
Grant Title
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
July 2015
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
March 2016
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2016
March 2016
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock on Forecasting
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2016
May 2016
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2016)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$520,000
Date
May 2016
May 2016
Grant Title
American University — Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Organization Name
Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$76,234
Date
May 2016
May 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
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
July 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,035,000
Date
July 2016
August 2016
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,300,000
Date
August 2016
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
August 2016
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2016
September 2016
Grant Title
University of Cape Town — Geomagnetics Research
Organization Name
University of Cape Town
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$493,425
Date
September 2016
September 2016
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$115,652
Date
September 2016
September 2016
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,032,947
Date
September 2016
October 2016
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,744,000
Date
October 2016
October 2016
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2016)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$643,415
Date
October 2016
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
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
December 2016
Grant Title
Harvard University — Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2016
January 2017
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2017
January 2017
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2017)
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$16,000,000
Date
January 2017
February 2017
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Planning Grant for Global Health Security Index
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$476,859
Date
February 2017
February 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio and FBI Meeting
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2017
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
March 2017
Grant Title
ClimateWorks Foundation — Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program
Organization Name
ClimateWorks Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Percy Liang Planning Grant
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
March 2017
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 2017
Grant Title
UCLA — Climate Engineering Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$776,095
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,125,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
OpenAI — General Support
Organization Name
OpenAI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title
Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling
Organization Name
Rutgers University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,982,206
Date
March 2017
April 2017
Grant Title
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0
Organization Name
BioBricks Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — International Meeting on Governance of Dual-Use Research
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$452,545
Date
May 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio Labs Project
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$454,025
Date
May 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
North Carolina State University — DIYbio Labs Project
Organization Name
North Carolina State University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$252,725
Date
May 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2017
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
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
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
July 2017
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock’s “Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” Forecasting Project
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$1,550,000
Date
July 2017
July 2017
Grant Title
Smithsonian Institution — Outbreak Exhibit
Organization Name
Smithsonian Institution
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2017
July 2017
Grant Title
Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
Yale University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$299,320
Date
July 2017
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
August 2017
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$260,000
Date
August 2017
September 2017
Grant Title
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2017
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
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
October 2017
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
October 2017
November 2017
Grant Title
David Manheim — Research on Existential Risk from Infectious Disease
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$65,308
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title
InterAcademy Partnership — Side Event at the BWC Meeting of State Parties
Organization Name
InterAcademy Partnership
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,605
Date
November 2017
December 2017
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title
American Society for Microbiology — Biothreats Meeting
Organization Name
American Society for Microbiology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$43,149
Date
December 2017
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$44,627
Date
February 2018
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
February 2018
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Pandemic Policy Project Led by Jeremy Konyndyk
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$49,942
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,222,653
Date
February 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Security
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,771
Date
April 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$570,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Nick Otis — Forecasting Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
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
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
June 2018
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,688,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — SynBioBeta 2018 Meeting
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$169,600
Date
June 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Health Security Index
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,556,773
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$429,770
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$12,250,810
Date
July 2018
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
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — D.Phil Support for Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$26,086
Date
October 2018
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
November 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Projects to Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,904,942
Date
November 2018
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
November 2018
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2018)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$420,000
Date
November 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The University of Sydney — 2019 Global Health Security Conference
Organization Name
University of Sydney
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$32,621
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
January 2019
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2019)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,625,000
Date
January 2019
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
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
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
March 2019
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2019)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2019
April 2019
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2019)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2019
May 2019