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UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research

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  • Focus Area: Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  • Organization Name: UC Santa Cruz
  • Amount: $265,000

  • Award Date: January 2021

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $265,000 over three years to UC Santa Cruz to support early-career research by Cihang Xie on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety.

    This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

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