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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
February 2024
Grant Title
Straumli — LLM Cyberoffense Benchmark
Organization Name
Straumli
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
February 2024
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
$593,540
Date
March 2020
February 2023
Grant Title
Successif — Career Advising
Organization Name
Successif
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$778,570
Date
February 2023
Grant Title
Support for Career Development and Transitions
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,841,768
Date
January 1970
March 2023
Grant Title
Support for Career Transition Plans
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$753,162
Date
March 2023
August 2022
Grant Title
Support for London Group Organizers
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Surge AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp — AI Safety Bootcamp
Organization Name
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Pivotal Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$286,500
Date
May 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
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
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
November 2021
Grant Title
The Degrees Initiative — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
The Degrees Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
November 2021
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 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
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
September 2023
Grant Title
Training for Good — Operating Costs and Tarbell Fellowship
Organization Name
Training for Good
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$575,000
Date
September 2023
October 2022
Grant Title
Travel Grants for the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$48,032
Date
October 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title
Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research
Organization Name
Tyler Whitmer
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
$11,955,246
Date
January 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 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
January 2023
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
March 2017
Grant Title
UCLA — Climate Engineering Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$776,095
Date
March 2017
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
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
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
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Birmingham — Biological Threat Detection Research
Organization Name
University of Birmingham
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of British Columbia — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of British Columbia
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,375
Date
January 2023
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
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
September 2016
Grant Title
University of Cape Town — Geomagnetics Research
Organization Name
University of Cape Town
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$493,425
Date
September 2016
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Research on Complementary AI
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2023
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
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
January 2024
Grant Title
University of Illinois Foundation — LLM Hacking Benchmarks
Organization Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$800,000
Date
January 2024
April 2023