Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $195,000 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support its collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) on the SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) Program. MATS is a two-month program where students will research problems related to AI alignment while supervised by a mentor.
This follows our May 2021 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.