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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
March 2017
Grant Title
OpenAI — General Support
Organization Name
OpenAI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000,000
Date
March 2017
April 2022
Grant Title
Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$14,459,002
Date
April 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,355,246
Date
January 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
November 2021
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$9,420,000
Date
November 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (January 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$8,000,000
Date
January 2021
February 2020
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,703,750
Date
February 2020
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
November 2022
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 2022
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
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
January 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,881,741
Date
January 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,537,600
Date
December 2021
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
May 2019
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2019 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,325,000
Date
May 2019
May 2020
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2020 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
May 2020
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
January 2022
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program (2022)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,023,322
Date
January 2022
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
June 2022
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022
January 2020
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
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
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
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,433,000
Date
February 2023
February 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
December 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,111,000
Date
December 2019
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
November 2019
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — AI Policy Development at the OECD
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$770,076
Date
February 2023
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$730,000
Date
October 2021
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
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
July 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$612,185
Date
July 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
March 2020
Grant Title
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers — Scholarship Support
Organization Name
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$594,240
Date
March 2020
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Tübingen — Robustness Research (Wieland Brendel)
Organization Name
University of Tübingen
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$590,000
Date
February 2021
November 2022
Grant Title
Northeastern University — Large Language Model Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$562,128
Date
November 2022
November 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
WestExec — Report on Assurance in Machine Learning Systems
Organization Name
WestExec
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$540,000
Date
February 2020
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$520,000
Date
December 2020
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
June 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$496,540
Date
June 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
May 2020
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
March 2022
Grant Title
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis
Organization Name
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
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
October 2021
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
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
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (February 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$368,440
Date
February 2020
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Cornell University — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Cornell University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$342,645
Date
February 2023
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (David Wagner)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dawn Song)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
February 2021
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
February 2022
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
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
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Tübingen — Adversarial Robustness Research (Matthias Hein)
Organization Name
University of Tübingen
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
February 2021
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$291,214
Date
April 2021
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
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
January 2021
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
UC Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
January 2021
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
April 2021
Grant Title
University of Cambridge — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Cambridge
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
December 2021
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$246,564
Date
December 2021
December 2022
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$239,061
Date
December 2022
November 2021
Grant Title
Mila — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,931
Date
November 2021
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 2023
Grant Title
Leap Labs — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Leap Labs
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$230,000
Date
April 2023
September 2021
Grant Title
Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Université de Montréal
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,552
Date
September 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
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
November 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2019
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
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
February 2023