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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Sebastian Lodemann — Existential Risk Projects
Organization Name
Sebastian Lodemann
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$43,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp
Organization Name
Lausanne AI Alignment
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$27,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Oliver Crook — Travel Grant for Biological Attribution Event
Organization Name
Oliver Crook
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,553
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — Forecasting Review on Power-Seeking AI
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$231,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students
Organization Name
High Impact Medicine
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Biosecurity Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,648,881
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,835,390
Date
December 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
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
Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Consulting Network
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$34,500
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research
Organization Name
Tyler Whitmer
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — General Support
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Chelsea Liang — Biosecurity Policy in Australia
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$31,099
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Science of Forecasting
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$6,305,675
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
Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine
Organization Name
Latecomer Institute
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Andrew Szanton — Operation Warp Speed Memoir
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
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
Michel Justen — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$13,000
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
Effective Ventures Foundation — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$11,425,000
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
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2023)
Organization Name
Scholarship (Various)
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$396,312
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
$63,839
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
SecureBio — Biosecurity Research
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,400
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
London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London
Organization Name
London Effective Altruism Hub
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development
Organization Name
Seton Hall University
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$39,780
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
Helena — Health Security Policy
Organization Name
Helena
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
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
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$83,000
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
Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$11,850
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
Travel Grants for the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$48,032
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$869,186
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$10,350
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
October 2022