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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
August 2017
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$260,000
Date
August 2017
September 2017
Grant Title
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2017
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
October 2017
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,750,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
October 2017
November 2017
Grant Title
David Manheim — Research on Existential Risk from Infectious Disease
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$65,308
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title
InterAcademy Partnership — Side Event at the BWC Meeting of State Parties
Organization Name
InterAcademy Partnership
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,605
Date
November 2017
December 2017
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title
American Society for Microbiology — Biothreats Meeting
Organization Name
American Society for Microbiology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$43,149
Date
December 2017
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$44,627
Date
February 2018
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
February 2018
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Pandemic Policy Project Led by Jeremy Konyndyk
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$49,942
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,222,653
Date
February 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2018
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
May 2018
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$570,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Nick Otis — Forecasting Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
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
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
June 2018
