Grants

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

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title

Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research

Organization Name

Gryphon Scientific

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title

International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards

Organization Name

International Conference on Learning Representations

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
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 2020
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
June 2020
Grant Title

Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety

Organization Name

Harvard University

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

Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$496,540
Date
June 2020
July 2020
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)

Organization Name

Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,394,530
Date
July 2020
August 2020
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2020)

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$29,432
Date
August 2020
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
September 2020
Grant Title

AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response

Organization Name

AcceleratingHT

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
September 2020
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
September 2020
Grant Title

Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

Organization Name

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
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
September 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Longtermist Incubator

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$48,736
Date
September 2020
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
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 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
October 2020
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$890,000
Date
October 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (November 2020)

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,050,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Global Health Security Network — Global Health Security Conference

Organization Name

Global Health Security Network

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

1Day Sooner — General Support (November 2020)

Organization Name

1Day Sooner

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 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
November 2020
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

University of Toronto — Machine Learning Research

Organization Name

University of Toronto

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$520,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Global Catastrophic Risk Education

Organization Name

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2021)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,144,789
Date
January 2021
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 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 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,955,246
Date
January 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (January 2021)

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$8,000,000
Date
January 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Debate Championship — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Debate Championship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,915
Date
January 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,500,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2021)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,766,373
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Immune Observatory — Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Modeling

Organization Name

Immune Observatory

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2021
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
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
February 2021
Grant Title

University of Tübingen — Robustness Research (Wieland Brendel)

Organization Name

University of Tübingen

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$590,000
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
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021