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

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
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
June 2018
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
July 2018
Grant Title

Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
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
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
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
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 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
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
January 2023
Grant Title

Neel Nanda — Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Neel Nanda

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Scalable Oversight Dataset

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2023
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
October 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — University Collaboration Program

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
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
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 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
February 2022
Grant Title

Michael Page — Career Transition Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
August 2023
Grant Title

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp — AI Safety Bootcamp

Organization Name

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
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
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Mila — Workshop on Human-Level AI

Organization Name

Mila

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2023
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