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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$246,564
Date
December 2021
April 2023
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023)
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$245,000
Date
April 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$239,061
Date
December 2022
November 2021
Grant Title
Mila — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,931
Date
November 2021
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$235,000
Date
September 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
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
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
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
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
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
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
August 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
March 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
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
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
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
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 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
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
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest
Organization Name
AI Alignment Awards
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Neel Nanda — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Neel Nanda
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$63,839
Date
November 2022
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 2020
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins University — Support for Jared Kaplan and Brice Ménard
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000
Date
March 2020
February 2022
Grant Title
Michael Page — Career Transition Grant
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
November 2020
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
World Economic Forum — Global AI Council Workshop
Organization Name
World Economic Forum
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
Mila — Workshop on Human-Level AI
Organization Name
Mila
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Inverse Scaling Prize
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$49,500
Date
December 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Brian Christian — Psychology Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Lab Retreat
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$35,000
Date
July 2023
December 2016
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$32,000
Date
December 2016
January 2020
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Research on the State of AI Assurance Methods
Organization Name
The RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,751
Date
January 2020
June 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Language Model Alignment Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000
Date
June 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
OpenMined — Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and AI Safety
Organization Name
OpenMined
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$28,320
Date
April 2022
March 2017
Grant Title
Distill Prize for Clarity in Machine Learning — General Support
Organization Name
Distill Prize for Clarity in Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
March 2017
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
September 2020
Grant Title
Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel LLC — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
September 2020
March 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Percy Liang Planning Grant
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
March 2017
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
April 2022
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Adam Jermyn — Independent AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,231
Date
January 2023
May 2021
Grant Title
Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
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
January 2020
Grant Title
Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible
Organization Name
Press Shop
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
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
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
December 2022
Grant Title
Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
Date
December 2022
April 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Security
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,771
Date
April 2018
March 2022
Grant Title
Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
January 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
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
November 2018
Grant Title
Daniel Kang, Jacob Steinhardt, Yi Sun, and Alex Zhai — Study of the Robustness of Machine Learning Models
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,351
Date
November 2018
October 2020