Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
November 2022
Grant Title

Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism

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

Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,047,268
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub

Organization Name

OxAI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Travel Grants for the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$48,032
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course 

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2022
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
October 2022
Grant Title

Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Alvea — Drug Development Acceleration (October 2022)

Organization Name

Alvea

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
October 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowships and Policy Work

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,898,350
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Wilton Park — Biological Weapons Convention Retreat

Organization Name

Wilton Park

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$47,722
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development

Organization Name

Princeton University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Educational Degree Program

Organization Name

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,908,161
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University of Queensland — Online EA Course

Organization Name

University of Queensland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

American University — Solar Geoengineering Initiative

Organization Name

American University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest

Organization Name

AI Alignment Awards

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Riley Harris — Global Priorities Research Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$65,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University Organizer Fellowship

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,597,743
Date
September 2022
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
September 2022
Grant Title

Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support

Organization Name

Lightcone Infrastructure

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Juan Gil — Book Distribution

Organization Name

Juan Gil

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Global Priorities Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,296,001
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group

Organization Name

Associated Students of Stanford University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$8,875,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Support for London Group Organizers

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Biosecurity Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,318,000
Date
August 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
August 2022
Grant Title

Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save

Organization Name

Effektiv Spenden

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,200,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Ann Garth – Climate Change Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title

Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum

Organization Name

Future Forum Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$16,500
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,149,398
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop

Organization Name

Biosecure Ltd

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022