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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
January 2024
Grant Title
Lee Foster — LLM Misuse Database
Organization Name
Lee Foster
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,000
Date
January 2024
May 2023
Grant Title
Conjecture — AI Safety Technical Program
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,569
Date
May 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Worldviews Contest Winners
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 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
November 2023
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — General Support
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
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
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
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 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
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
January 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
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 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 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — Language Model Evaluations
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2023
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
June 2016
Grant Title
George Mason University — Research into Future Artificial Intelligence Scenarios
Organization Name
George Mason University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$277,435
Date
June 2016
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
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — AI Safety Communications Centre
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
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
July 2017
Grant Title
Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
Yale University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$299,320
Date
July 2017
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
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
February 2022
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
August 2021
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 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
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
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
$345,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
February 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (February 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$368,440
Date
February 2020
September 2023
Grant Title
Matthew Kenney – Language Model Capabilities Benchmarking
Organization Name
Matthew Kenney
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$397,350
Date
September 2023
July 2018
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
July 2018
July 2017
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Core Support and CHAI Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$403,890
Date
July 2017
August 2023
Grant Title
Modulo Research — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Modulo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$408,255
Date
August 2023
October 2021
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
June 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS 4.0
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$428,942
Date
June 2023
July 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$429,770
Date
July 2018
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis
Organization Name
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
May 2020
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
October 2022
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$460,000
Date
July 2023
August 2022
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
June 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$496,540
Date
June 2020
January 2024
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Internships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
August 2016
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2016
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$520,000
Date
December 2020
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
February 2020
Grant Title
WestExec — Report on Assurance in Machine Learning Systems
Organization Name
WestExec
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$540,000
Date
February 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
June 2023
Grant Title
Foundation for American Innovation — AI Safety Policy Advocacy
Organization Name
Foundation for American Innovation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$552,500
Date
June 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
Northeastern University — Large Language Model Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$562,128
Date
November 2022
January 2024
Grant Title
AI Safety Support – Astra Fellowship
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$567,000
Date
January 2024
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 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
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
March 2024
Grant Title
FutureSearch – Benchmark for Language Model Forecasting
Organization Name
FutureSearch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$606,600
Date
March 2024
July 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$612,185
Date
July 2021
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$620,000
Date
August 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
January 2024
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Alignment Research Projects
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$645,750
Date
January 2024
November 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
February 2024
Grant Title
— AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$713,000
Date
February 2024
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$730,000
Date
October 2021
August 2023
Grant Title
Guide Labs — Open Access Interpretability Project
Organization Name
Guide Labs
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$750,000
Date
August 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
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
May 2023
Grant Title
Owain Evans Research Group — AI Evaluations Research
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$838,620
Date
May 2023
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
November 2019
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
January 2024
Grant Title
Harvard University — AI Interpretability, Controllability, and Safety Research
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2024
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
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
February 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
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
August 2015
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,186,000
Date
August 2015
June 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS 4.0
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,240,840
Date
June 2023
May 2018
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
November 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support (November 2022)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
November 2022
May 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Support for Percy Liang
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,337,600
Date
May 2017
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 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
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
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
May 2023
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2023
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
June 2023
Grant Title
Apollo Research — Startup Funding
Organization Name
Apollo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,535,480
Date
June 2023
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
November 2022