Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
February 2020
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (February 2020)

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$368,440
Date
February 2020
July 2021
Grant Title

Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability

Organization Name

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2023)

Organization Name

Scholarship (Various)

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$352,312
Date
November 2022
August 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Forethought Foundation — Global Priorities Research

Organization Name

Forethought Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$348,993
Date
April 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$345,000
Date
August 2023
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Cornell University — AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Cornell University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$342,645
Date
February 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

SecureBio — Pathogen Early Warning Project

Organization Name

SecureBio

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$340,000
Date
August 2023
May 2017
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (David Wagner)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dawn Song)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
February 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Carnegie Mellon University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 2021
May 2023
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowship

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$326,500
Date
May 2023
April 2020
Grant Title

Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems — COVID-19 Ventilation Helmet Production

Organization Name

Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$325,000
Date
April 2020
July 2022
Grant Title

Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp

Organization Name

Apollo Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 2021
May 2023
Grant Title

Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$315,894
Date
May 2023
June 2020
Grant Title

Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety

Organization Name

Harvard University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 2020
April 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
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
May 2016
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshop

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$302,390
Date
April 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Condor Camp — Summer Program for Brazilian Students

Organization Name

Condor Camp

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$301,197
Date
June 2023
July 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
April 2015
Grant Title

Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense

Organization Name

Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
April 2020
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
November 2021
Grant Title

iGEM — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Project

Organization Name

iGem

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

University of Tübingen — Adversarial Robustness Research (Matthias Hein)

Organization Name

University of Tübingen

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
February 2021
July 2017
Grant Title

Smithsonian Institution — Outbreak Exhibit

Organization Name

Smithsonian Institution

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2017
July 2017
Grant Title

Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI

Organization Name

Yale University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$299,320
Date
July 2017
April 2022
Grant Title

Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
April 2021
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$291,214
Date
April 2021
April 2024
Grant Title

LASR Labs — Fellowship Program

Organization Name

LASR Labs

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$288,732
Date
April 2024
August 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — AI Safety Communications Centre

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship

Organization Name

Pivotal Research

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$286,500
Date
May 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 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
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 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
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
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
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
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 2023
Grant Title

AI Worldviews Contest Winners

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 2023
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
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
March 2024
Grant Title

cFactual — Fellowship Program

Organization Name

cFactual

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$220,000
Date
March 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — Biosecurity Workshop

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$198,000
Date
March 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
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
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