Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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 — Inverse Scaling Prize

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$49,500
Date
December 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
March 2024
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Latent Adversarial Training Project 

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$45,000
Date
March 2024
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
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
$40,000
Date
June 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
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
October 2023
Grant Title

University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
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
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
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
November 2023
Grant Title

ETH Zurich Foundation (USA) — Machine Learning Research Support

Organization Name

ETH Zurich Fondation (USA)

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
November 2023
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
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
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
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

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
Grant Title

Smitha Milli — Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$370
Date
October 2020