Grants

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

Epoch — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,922,565
Date
April 2023
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
April 2023
Grant Title

Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023)

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$245,000
Date
April 2023
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
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 2023
Grant Title

Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Center for AI Safety

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,025,729
Date
April 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
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
April 2023
Grant Title

National Science Foundation — Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

Organization Name

National Science Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Fellowships and Research

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
April 2023
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 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
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
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
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

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
February 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations

Organization Name

Epoch

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

Brian Christian — Psychology Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
Date
December 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$47,359
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

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

Center for AI Safety — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Center for AI Safety

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 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
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,047,268
Date
November 2022
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
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
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

Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
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
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