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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
October 2020
Grant Title
Smitha Milli — Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$370
Date
October 2020
January 2021
Grant Title
Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
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 2022
Grant Title
Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
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
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Oliver Crook — Travel Grant for Biological Attribution Event
Organization Name
Oliver Crook
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,553
Date
January 2023
July 2022
Grant Title
Ann Garth – Climate Change Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
January 2021
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Debate Championship — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Debate Championship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,915
Date
January 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Animal Ethics — Longtermist Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
Animal Ethics
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$6,100
Date
February 2023
January 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
March 2022
Grant Title
Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
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
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
December 2022
Grant Title
Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
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
June 2022
Grant Title
Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,600
Date
January 2023
May 2018
Grant Title
Nick Otis — Forecasting Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2018
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group
Organization Name
Associated Students of Stanford University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
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
October 2022
Grant Title
Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 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
November 2022
Grant Title
Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 2022
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Jake Pencharz — Metagenomic Sequencing Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$12,900
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Michel Justen — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
WorkStream Business Systems — EA Operations and Leadership Fellowships
Organization Name
WorkStream Business Systems
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$14,000
Date
February 2023
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
October 2022
Grant Title
Thomas Liao — Foundation Model Tracker
Organization Name
Foundation Model Tracker
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Nonlinear Fund — Personal Assistant Hiring Agency
Organization Name
Nonlinear Fund
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$15,000
Date
January 2022
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
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
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
February 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio and FBI Meeting
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$16,500
Date
July 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Jeremy Rubinoff — AI Safety Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$16,587
Date
January 2023
January 2020
Grant Title
Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible
Organization Name
Press Shop
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
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
December 2021
Grant Title
William D’Alessandro — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,000
Date
December 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
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
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
February 2024
Grant Title
Touro College & University System — AI Governance Legal Research
Organization Name
Touro College & University System
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,783
Date
February 2024
June 2022
Grant Title
Universidad de Sevilla — Course on Effective Altruism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,982
Date
June 2022
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp
Organization Name
Lausanne AI Alignment
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$21,092
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
University of Pavia — Law, Ethics, and AI Course Development
Organization Name
University of Pavia
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$23,245
Date
February 2023
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Juan Gil — Book Distribution
Organization Name
Juan Gil
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Arb Research — Staff Support
Organization Name
Arb Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2023
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
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
September 2020
Grant Title
Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel LLC — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
September 2020
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
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 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Effective Altruism — AI Safety Labs
Organization Name
Cambridge Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,239
Date
March 2023
August 2022
Grant Title
Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save
Organization Name
Effektiv Spenden
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
October 2023
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
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
September 2022
Grant Title
Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development
Organization Name
Princeton University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
OpenMined — Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and AI Safety
Organization Name
OpenMined
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$28,320
Date
April 2022
August 2020
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2020)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$29,432
Date
August 2020
February 2023
Grant Title
Sabine Wieluch and Sebastian Morr GbR — EA Web Content
Organization Name
Sabine Wieluch and Sebastian Morr GbR
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$30,000
Date
February 2023
August 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
Altruistic Agency — Tech Support for Nonprofits
Organization Name
Altruistic Agency
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$30,000
Date
January 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
January 2020
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Research on the State of AI Assurance Methods
Organization Name
The RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,751
Date
January 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
Chelsea Liang — Biosecurity Policy in Australia
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$31,099
Date
December 2022
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Utah — Course on Human-AI Alignment
Organization Name
University of Utah
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$31,773
Date
August 2023
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 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
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Litigation Research
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$34,000
Date
February 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Consulting Network
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$34,500
Date
December 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
September 2022
Grant Title
University of Queensland — Online EA Course
Organization Name
University of Queensland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — Support for What We Owe The Future
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$37,128
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Brian Christian — Psychology Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,220
Date
August 2023
January 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for The Precipice
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,350
Date
January 2020
March 2023
Grant Title
San José State University — AI Research
Organization Name
California State University, San José
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$39,000
Date
March 2023
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
November 2022
Grant Title
Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development
Organization Name
Seton Hall University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,780
Date
November 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Genetic Engineering Attribution
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$40,000
Date
January 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
$40,000
Date
June 2022
March 2023
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Social Science Prediction Platform
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$40,000
Date
March 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Germany — ML4Good Bootcamp
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Germany
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,377
Date
June 2023
April 2023
Grant Title
Victory Briefs Institute — Debate Camp Scholarships (2023)
Organization Name
Victory Briefs Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,500
Date
April 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Sebastian Lodemann — Existential Risk Projects
Organization Name
Sebastian Lodemann
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$43,000
Date
January 2023
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
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
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
August 2022
