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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Pivotal Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$286,500
Date
May 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — AI Safety Communications Centre
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
April 2024
Grant Title
LASR Labs — Fellowship Program
Organization Name
LASR Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$288,732
Date
April 2024
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 2022
Grant Title
Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
July 2017
Grant Title
Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
Yale University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$299,320
Date
July 2017
April 2020
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
November 2021
Grant Title
iGEM — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Project
Organization Name
iGem
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 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
July 2017
Grant Title
Smithsonian Institution — Outbreak Exhibit
Organization Name
Smithsonian Institution
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2017
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
April 2015
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
June 2023
Grant Title
Condor Camp — Summer Program for Brazilian Students
Organization Name
Condor Camp
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$301,197
Date
June 2023
April 2023
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshop
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$302,390
Date
April 2023
May 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
February 2022
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
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 2023
Grant Title
Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program
Organization Name
Non-Trivial
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$315,894
Date
May 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space (2023)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$320,000
Date
October 2023
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
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
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
May 2023
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowship
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$326,500
Date
May 2023
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
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
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
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
May 2017
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
August 2023
Grant Title
SecureBio — Pathogen Early Warning Project
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$340,000
Date
August 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Cornell University — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Cornell University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$342,645
Date
February 2023
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$345,000
Date
August 2023
April 2023
Grant Title
Forethought Foundation — Global Priorities Research
Organization Name
Forethought Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$348,993
Date
April 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2023)
Organization Name
Scholarship (Various)
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$352,312
Date
November 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (February 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$368,440
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
May 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Consulting Network
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$380,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Health Security Scholars
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$381,220
Date
May 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$387,741
Date
March 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$388,890
Date
June 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Angela Aristizábal — ITAM AI Futures Fellowship
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$390,155
Date
August 2023
March 2024
Grant Title
Pivotal Research — Summer Research Fellowship (2024)
Organization Name
Pivotal Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$395,608
Date
March 2024
September 2023
Grant Title
Matthew Kenney – Language Model Capabilities Benchmarking
Organization Name
Matthew Kenney
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$397,350
Date
September 2023
July 2018