Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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
October 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — University Collaboration Program

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest

Organization Name

AI Alignment Awards

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2022
August 2023
Grant Title

Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship

Organization Name

Legal Priorities Project

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title

University of Toronto — Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Toronto

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 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
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons

Organization Name

Apart Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
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
June 2018
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
July 2018
Grant Title

Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
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
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
November 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Jérémy Scheurer — Independent AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
December 2022
September 2023
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — AI Governance Roundtables

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
February 2022
Grant Title

AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
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
September 2023
Grant Title

Northeastern University — Mechanistic Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Northeastern University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
September 2020
Grant Title

Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

Organization Name

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
November 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
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
November 2023
Grant Title

Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2023)

Organization Name

Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 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 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — AI Safety Technical Program (May 2023)

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$146,165
Date
May 2023
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
January 2020
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
June 2018
Grant Title

Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program

Organization Name

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
July 2022
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (Barrett and Viteri)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$153,820
Date
July 2022
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$154,810
Date
April 2023
February 2018
Grant Title

AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)

Organization Name

AI Scholarships

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
September 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — Alignment Workshop

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
December 2022
Grant Title

Purdue University — Language Model Research

Organization Name

Purdue University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$170,000
Date
December 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
May 2021
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
February 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
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
November 2016
Grant Title

Electronic Frontier Foundation — Artificial Intelligence Scenarios and Social Impacts

Organization Name

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$199,000
Date
November 2016
August 2022
Grant Title

Arizona State University — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Arizona State University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
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
February 2024
Grant Title

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)

Organization Name

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
February 2024
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$203,959
Date
September 2022
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
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022