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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021)
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,121,861
Date
April 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
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 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
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
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
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
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
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Immune Observatory — Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Modeling
Organization Name
Immune Observatory
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2021
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
February 2021
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,500,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2021)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,766,373
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
January 2021
