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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
February 2022
Grant Title
Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
March 2020
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
March 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe The Future
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
May 2016
Grant Title
American University — Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Organization Name
Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$76,234
Date
May 2016
May 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Research Assistant for Jonas Sandbrink
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$77,000
Date
May 2022
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 2023
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 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
November 2021
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 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
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
May 2022
Grant Title
Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters
Organization Name
Victory Briefs Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl
Organization Name
Prometheus Science Bowl
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 2022
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
February 2024
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Scalable Oversight Research
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2024
May 2017
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2017
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 2018
