Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$235,000
Date
September 2022
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative – SERI Summer Fellowships

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
March 2021
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022
November 2019
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2019
November 2016
Grant Title

Electronic Frontier Foundation — Artificial Intelligence Scenarios and Social Impacts

Organization Name

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$199,000
Date
November 2016
November 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$195,000
Date
November 2021
February 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
May 2021
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 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
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
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$154,810
Date
April 2023
July 2022
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (Barrett and Viteri)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$153,820
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
$150,000
Date
August 2023
January 2021
Grant Title

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research

Organization Name

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
January 2020
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
June 2018
Grant Title

Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program

Organization Name

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
March 2023
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
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
September 2023
Grant Title

Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Surge AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$123,750
Date
September 2023
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
September 2020
Grant Title

Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

Organization Name

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
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
February 2022
Grant Title

AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 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
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
September 2021
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
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
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
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
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
July 2019
Grant Title

Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament

Organization Name

Metaculus

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
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
July 2018
Grant Title

Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
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