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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2023
Grant Title
Librea — Effective Altruism Book Rights
Organization Name
Librea
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
January 2023
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
November 2022
Grant Title
London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London
Organization Name
Arcadia Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
November 2023
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — General Support
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
March 2024
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — London Coworking Space
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$821,248
Date
March 2024
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — AI Policy Development at the OECD
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$770,076
Date
February 2023
January 2024
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Effective Giving Information Sharing
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$595,426
Date
January 2024
November 2022
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$165,000
Date
February 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Film Project Scoping Work
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$57,500
Date
January 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — General Support
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,286,363
Date
December 2023
April 2022
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$74,557
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Support for Richard Chappell
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,500
Date
January 2023
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
August 2016
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2016
October 2017
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,750,000
Date
October 2017
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,703,750
Date
February 2020
May 2022
Grant Title
Madhu Sriram — Career Transition and Planning Grant
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
February 2024
Grant Title
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. — Open Source Biosafety Articles
Organization Name
Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,400
Date
February 2024
February 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
November 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
March 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
July 2023
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2023)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,911,324
Date
July 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Biosecurity Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,648,881
Date
December 2022
October 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$890,000
Date
October 2020
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
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2019
March 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Max Henderson — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$145,833
Date
February 2023
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
May 2022
Grant Title
Metaculus — Platform Development
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
May 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
Metaculus — Platform Development (2023)
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2023
February 2022
Grant Title
Michael Page — Career Transition Grant
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 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
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 2023
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)
Organization Name
Michael Specter
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2023
November 2022
Grant Title
Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Michel Justen — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
November 2021
Grant Title
Mila — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,931
Date
November 2021
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
August 2023
Grant Title
Modulo Research — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Modulo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$408,255
Date
August 2023
July 2017
Grant Title
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
July 2017
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
May 2017
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — International Meeting on Governance of Dual-Use Research
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$452,545
Date
May 2017
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