Grants

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Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
February 2023
Grant Title

Responsible AI Collaborative — AI Incident Database

Organization Name

Responsible AI Collaborative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2023
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
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 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
February 2023
Grant Title

Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Global Priorities Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,506,291
Date
February 2023
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Good Judgment Inc. — H5N1 Forecasts

Organization Name

Good Judgment Inc.

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2023
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Long-Term Future and Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,150,000
Date
February 2023
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$143,751
Date
February 2023
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Brian Christian — Psychology Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023)

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$165,000
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Max Henderson — Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$145,833
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,750,000
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

University of Tuebingen — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Tuebingen

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$575,000
Date
February 2023
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Successif — Career Advising

Organization Name

Successif

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$778,570
Date
February 2023
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
March 2023
Grant Title

PIBBSS — AI Safety Summer Fellowship

Organization Name

Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$239,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Global Challenges Project — General Support

Organization Name

Global Challenges Project

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$687,589
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe The Future

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
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
March 2023
Grant Title

cFactual — Consulting Services

Organization Name

cFactual

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$105,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — FAR Labs Office Space

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$280,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Support for Career Transition Plans

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$753,162
Date
March 2023
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
March 2023
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — Biosecurity Workshop

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$198,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$387,741
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2023)

Organization Name

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
March 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Charity Entrepreneurship — Health Security Organizations

Organization Name

Charity Entrepreneurship

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — Situational Awareness Research

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$443,716
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Forethought Foundation — Global Priorities Research

Organization Name

Forethought Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$348,993
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Fellowships and Research

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (2023)

Organization Name

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$7,831,500
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

National Science Foundation — Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

Organization Name

National Science Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshop

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$302,390
Date
April 2023
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
April 2023
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Metaculus — Platform Development (2023)

Organization Name

Metaculus

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Center for AI Safety

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,025,729
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

University of Utah — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Utah

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$991,000
Date
April 2023