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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$4,146,795
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for The Precipice
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$38,350
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Research on the State of AI Assurance Methods
Organization Name
The RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,751
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible
Organization Name
Press Shop
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
December 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,111,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title
Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2019
November 2019
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
October 2019
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2019
September 2019
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2019)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,755,921
Date
September 2019
September 2019
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2019)
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,192,755
Date
September 2019
September 2019
Grant Title
EA Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)
Organization Name
EA Scholarships
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$49,676
Date
September 2019
July 2019
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — Research and Operations
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2019
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
July 2019
Grant Title
European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support
Organization Name
European Summer Program on Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$510,000
Date
July 2019
May 2019
Grant Title
Global Catastrophic Risks Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$547,800
Date
May 2019
May 2019
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Work on Biological Risk Prevention
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$440,525
Date
May 2019
May 2019
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2019 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,325,000
Date
May 2019
April 2019
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2019)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2019)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,652,500
Date
February 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2019)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,625,000
Date
January 2019
December 2018
Grant Title
Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The University of Sydney — 2019 Global Health Security Conference
Organization Name
University of Sydney
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$32,621
Date
December 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2018)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$420,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Projects to Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,904,942
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Daniel Kang, Jacob Steinhardt, Yi Sun, and Alex Zhai — Study of the Robustness of Machine Learning Models
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,351
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2018)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,145,000
Date
November 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — D.Phil Support for Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$26,086
Date
October 2018
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$12,250,810
Date
July 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
July 2018
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Health Security Index
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,556,773
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$429,770
Date
July 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — SynBioBeta 2018 Meeting
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$169,600
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
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
June 2018
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,688,000
Date
June 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018