Grants

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Focus Area
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Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
January 2023
Grant Title

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk — University Scholarships

Organization Name

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

University of Oxford — Genetic Engineering Attribution

Organization Name

University of Oxford

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$40,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Support for Richard Chappell

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,500
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Film Project Scoping Work

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$57,500
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Existential Risks Alliance — Cambridge Fellowship

Organization Name

Existential Risks Alliance

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,014,116
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$74,557
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs

Organization Name

Effisciences

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,600
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)

Organization Name

University of California, Santa Cruz

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Effective Giving Summit

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$59,344
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title

University of British Columbia — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of British Columbia

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,375
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Sebastian Lodemann — Existential Risk Projects

Organization Name

Sebastian Lodemann

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$43,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp

Organization Name

Lausanne AI Alignment

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$21,092
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Oliver Crook — Travel Grant for Biological Attribution Event

Organization Name

Oliver Crook

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,553
Date
January 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title

High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students

Organization Name

High Impact Medicine

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Biosecurity Research (2022)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,648,881
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,835,390
Date
December 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop

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

Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Consulting Network

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$34,500
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research

Organization Name

Tyler Whitmer

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — General Support

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Chelsea Liang — Biosecurity Policy in Australia

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$31,099
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — Science of Forecasting

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$6,305,675
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

FAR AI — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Andrew Szanton — Operation Warp Speed Memoir

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

FAR AI — Inverse Scaling Prize

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$49,500
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Michel Justen — Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons

Organization Name

Apart Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

FAR AI — Interpretability Research

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,425,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Jérémy Scheurer — Independent AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
December 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Northeastern University — Large Language Model Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Northeastern University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$562,128
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 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
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$47,359
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

SecureBio — Biosecurity Research

Organization Name

SecureBio

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London

Organization Name

Arcadia Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development

Organization Name

Seton Hall University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,780
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Helena — Health Security Policy

Organization Name

Helena

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
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

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
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