Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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
November 2021
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$9,420,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
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
December 2021
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,537,600
Date
December 2021
January 2022
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program (2022)

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,023,322
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,869,940
Date
January 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Michael Page — Career Transition Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning

Organization Name

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
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
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
March 2022
Grant Title

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis

Organization Name

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Hofvarpnir Studios

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
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
March 2022
Grant Title

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research

Organization Name

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
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 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
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,589,002
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 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
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
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
June 2022
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Epoch — General Support

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 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
$30,000
Date
June 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,816,710
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples

Organization Name

Carnegie Mellon University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
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
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
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest

Organization Name

AI Alignment Awards

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2022
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
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
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
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

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

Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
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

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
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