Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
September 2023
Grant Title

Northeastern University — Mechanistic Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Northeastern University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
May 2018
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
May 2019
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2019 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,325,000
Date
May 2019
May 2020
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2020 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
May 2020
April 2021
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
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
January 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,869,940
Date
January 2022
March 2017
Grant Title

OpenAI — General Support

Organization Name

OpenAI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000,000
Date
March 2017
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
September 2023
Grant Title

OpenMined — Software for AI Audits

Organization Name

OpenMined

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
September 2023
May 2018
Grant Title

Ought — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Ought

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
November 2019
Grant Title

Ought — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Ought

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
January 2020
Grant Title

Ought — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Ought

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
May 2023
Grant Title

Owain Evans Research Group — AI Evaluations Research

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$838,620
Date
May 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
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
April 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Fellowships and Research

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
April 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Initiatives

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,500,000
Date
October 2023
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
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
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
June 2023
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,300,000
Date
June 2023
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
July 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$612,185
Date
July 2021
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
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
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
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
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
Date
December 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Index

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
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
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
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
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 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
May 2017
Grant Title

Stanford University — Support for Percy Liang

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,337,600
Date
May 2017
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 2020
Grant Title

Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers — Scholarship Support

Organization Name

Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$593,540
Date
March 2020
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
August 2023
Grant Title

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp — AI Safety Bootcamp

Organization Name

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
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
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
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