Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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 2021
Grant Title

Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
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 2021
Grant Title

Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Index

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research

Organization Name

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of California, Santa Cruz

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
January 2021
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
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 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
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 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 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