Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
May 2021
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
June 2023
Grant Title

Legal Priorities Project — General Support

Organization Name

Legal Priorities Project

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$170,000
Date
June 2023
December 2022
Grant Title

Purdue University — Language Model Research

Organization Name

Purdue University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$170,000
Date
December 2022
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
September 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — Alignment Workshop

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
September 2021
Grant Title

Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
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
May 2022
Grant Title

Rose Hadshar — Individual longtermism projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$163,830
Date
May 2022
February 2018
Grant Title

AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)

Organization Name

AI Scholarships

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
July 2022
Grant Title

Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop

Organization Name

Biosecure Ltd

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$154,810
Date
April 2023
July 2022
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (Barrett and Viteri)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$153,820
Date
July 2022
April 2017
Grant Title

BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0

Organization Name

BioBricks Foundation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
September 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — HAIST Office Space

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$151,678
Date
September 2023
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title

Good Judgment Inc. — H5N1 Forecasts

Organization Name

Good Judgment Inc.

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
January 2021
Grant Title

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research

Organization Name

Berryville Institute of Machine Learning

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
May 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — AI Safety Technical Program (May 2023)

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$146,165
Date
May 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Max Henderson — Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$145,833
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$143,751
Date
February 2023
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
April 2023
Grant Title

University of Utah — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Utah

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,000
Date
April 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Canada — Toronto Coworking Space 

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Canada

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$135,378
Date
August 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students

Organization Name

High Impact Medicine

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
February 2021
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
November 2023
Grant Title

Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2023)

Organization Name

Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 2023
January 2024
Grant Title

Nice Light — AI Documentary 

Organization Name

Nice Light

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$127,070
Date
January 2024
September 2023
Grant Title

Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Surge AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
February 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
August 2022
Grant Title

Support for London Group Organizers

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research

Organization Name

Tyler Whitmer

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
November 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
September 2020
Grant Title

Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

Organization Name

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
September 2023
Grant Title

Northeastern University — Mechanistic Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Northeastern University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
September 2016
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$115,652
Date
September 2016
January 2023
Grant Title

UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)

Organization Name

University of California, Santa Cruz

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
February 2022
Grant Title

AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk — University Scholarships

Organization Name

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title

Jérémy Scheurer — Independent AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
December 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
November 2022
September 2023
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — AI Governance Roundtables

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

cFactual — Consulting Services

Organization Name

cFactual

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$105,000
Date
March 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Dandelion Labs — Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamps

Organization Name

Dandelion Labs

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$104,803
Date
November 2023