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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
September 2021
Grant Title
Larissa Schiavo and Rachel Shu — COVID Response Documentary Miniseries
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
September 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
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 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Forecasting Platforms
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$7,993,782
Date
September 2021
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
August 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
George Washington University — Innovation in National Security Fellowship
Organization Name
George Washington University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$450,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — Biosecurity Research Project
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,330,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
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
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
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
Federation of American Scientists — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$480,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
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
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$719,034
Date
July 2021
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
May 2021
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 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 2021
Grant Title
Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
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 2021
Grant Title
Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021)
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,121,861
Date
April 2021
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 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 2021
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
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
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
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
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
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 Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
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
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
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
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
University of Toronto — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$520,000
Date
December 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Smitha Milli — Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$370
Date
October 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
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
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
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
AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response
Organization Name
AcceleratingHT
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
September 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
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
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
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
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
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 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
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
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
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
1Day Sooner — General Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
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
May 2020
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
World Economic Forum — Global AI Council Workshop
Organization Name
World Economic Forum
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling (2020)
Organization Name
Rutgers University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2020
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
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2020)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$940,000
Date
April 2020
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
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins University — Support for Jared Kaplan and Brice Ménard
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
