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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
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
April 2024
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Red-line Evaluations
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$125,000
Date
April 2024
August 2022
Grant Title
Support for London Group Organizers
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
February 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
September 2023
Grant Title
Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Surge AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
January 2024
Grant Title
Nice Light — AI Documentary
Organization Name
Nice Light
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$127,070
Date
January 2024
November 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2023)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 2023
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students
Organization Name
High Impact Medicine
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Canada — Toronto Coworking Space
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Canada
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$135,378
Date
August 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 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
February 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$143,751
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Max Henderson — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$145,833
Date
February 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — AI Safety Technical Program (May 2023)
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$146,165
Date
May 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — H5N1 Forecasts
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 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
September 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — HAIST Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$151,678
Date
September 2023
April 2017
Grant Title
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0
Organization Name
BioBricks Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
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
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
Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 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
May 2022
Grant Title
Rose Hadshar — Individual longtermism projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$163,830
Date
May 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$165,000
Date
February 2023
September 2021
Grant Title
Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
September 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
June 2018
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — SynBioBeta 2018 Meeting
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$169,600
Date
June 2018
June 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — General Support
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$170,000
Date
June 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
February 2024
Grant Title
Institute for Replication — Large Language Model Replication Games
Organization Name
Institute for Replication
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$174,112
Date
February 2024
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
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
September 2020
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — International Science Advisory Body for Biosecurity
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$176,000
Date
November 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for Jade Leung
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$180,000
Date
February 2020
February 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Harvard University — Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$190,000
Date
January 2023
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
March 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — Biosecurity Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$198,000
Date
March 2023
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Arizona State University — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Arizona State University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Good Forever Foundation — Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Mitigation (2021)
Organization Name
Good Forever Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 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
February 2024
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
February 2024
April 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research and Advocacy (April 2022)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
April 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$203,959
Date
September 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs (2023)
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$205,000
Date
July 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
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
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
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 2024
Grant Title
cFactual — Fellowship Program
Organization Name
cFactual
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$220,000
Date
March 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Lee Foster — LLM Misuse Database
Organization Name
Lee Foster
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,000
Date
January 2024
May 2023
Grant Title
Conjecture — AI Safety Technical Program
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,569
Date
May 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Worldviews Contest Winners
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 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
January 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — Forecasting Review on Power-Seeking AI
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$231,000
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine
Organization Name
Latecomer Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
November 2023
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — General Support
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
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
March 2023
Grant Title
PIBBSS — AI Safety Summer Fellowship
Organization Name
Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$239,000
Date
March 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
October 2021
Grant Title
Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest
Organization Name
Eon Essay Contest
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$240,000
Date
October 2021
October 2023
Grant Title
Should We Studio — Video Production (2023)
Organization Name
Should We Studio
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$245,000
Date
October 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
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
May 2020
Grant Title
Center for Population-Level Bioethics — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2020
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
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 2020
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Planning Grant
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2020
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2021
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
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
June 2018
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2018
April 2023
Grant Title
Charity Entrepreneurship — Health Security Organizations
Organization Name
Charity Entrepreneurship
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
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
June 2022
Grant Title
Convergent Research — Sequencing Roadmap
Organization Name
Convergent Research
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2022
December 2019
Grant Title
Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2019
March 2020
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Local Response Guidelines
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2020
October 2021
Grant Title
Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks
Organization Name
Bit by Bit Coding
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
May 2017
Grant Title
North Carolina State University — DIYbio Labs Project
Organization Name
North Carolina State University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$252,725
Date
May 2017
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
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
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
October 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Groups Team Support (EVF USA)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$276,127
Date
October 2023
June 2016
Grant Title
George Mason University — Research into Future Artificial Intelligence Scenarios
Organization Name
George Mason University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$277,435
Date
June 2016
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$284,629
Date
January 2023
November 2021
Grant Title
Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2021)
Organization Name
Rational Animations
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
November 2021
May 2023