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AI Safety Regranting

We've delegated $1.5m to experts in AI safety, who can independently recommend grants based on their knowledge of the field.
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Including 30 projects in all stages and from all rounds.

Seeking funding

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Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali

[Urgent] Travel funding to present research at TAIS25, ICLR, and GovAI Summit

1
0
$0/$5K
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Francisco Carvalho

Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$2.5K/$100K
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Mox

Mox, a coworking & events space in SF

For AI safety, AI labs, EA charities & startups

Technical AI safetyEA community
3
4
$1.39K/$400K
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Connor Axiotes

Creating 'Making God': a Feature Documentary on risks from AGI

Production costs for the filming of our ‘Making God’ - documentary on risks from AI for a public, non-technical audience.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
8
5
$5.67K/$293K
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Yuanyuan Sun

AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding

Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
0
$12K/$20K
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Matthew Farr

[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
1
$700
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Guy

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
8
12
$10.3K/$32.2K
🐹

Tyler John

Philanthropic advising

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
4
$20K
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Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
10
11
$8.11K
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Johan Fredrikzon

Book: A History of AI x-risk (open access)

Building on a course I've been designing, I'm writing a short book on the history of existential risk from AI for a general audience

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$25/$70K
🐯

Scott Viteri

Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs

Compute Funding

Technical AI safety
4
2
$3.1K
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Mohamed Hussein Iman

AI and Human Rights pre-doctoral research fellowship

Funding research in to AI's current and future impact on our individual freedoms.

AI governance
0
0
$0/$58.2K
CeSIA avatar

Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

AI Safety Atlas

Distilling AI safety research into a complete learning ecosystem: textbook, courses, guides, videos, and more.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
12
13
$1.23K/$191K
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Jai Dhyani

Luthien

Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
1
$20.5K
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Francesca Gomez

Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems

Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
3
1
$10K/$65K
🐙

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

Establishing the Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society

Utilitarianism.net into Thai

EA community
4
1
$1.01K
liconstan avatar

Constance Li

Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area

Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates at Mox SF

Animal welfareEA community
5
3
$500/$12K
🐔

Ola Mardawi

Evaluating LLM Safety in a Multilingual World

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$300K
🐰

Lin Bowker-Lonnecker

Online Biosecurity Course Starting May 2025

Running the initial online version of a 4-week biosecurity course for 20-50 participants

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$6.01K
🐸

SaferAI

General support for SaferAI

Support for SaferAI’s technical and governance research and education programs to enable responsible and safe AI.

AI governance
3
1
$100K
All projectsCommentsDonations

Including 634 projects in all stages and from all rounds.

Seeking funding

sheikheddy avatar

Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali

[Urgent] Travel funding to present research at TAIS25, ICLR, and GovAI Summit

1
0
$0/$5K
francisco avatar

Francisco Carvalho

Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$2.5K/$100K
mox avatar

Mox

Mox, a coworking & events space in SF

For AI safety, AI labs, EA charities & startups

Technical AI safetyEA community
3
4
$1.39K/$400K
Connoraxiotes avatar

Connor Axiotes

Creating 'Making God': a Feature Documentary on risks from AGI

Production costs for the filming of our ‘Making God’ - documentary on risks from AI for a public, non-technical audience.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
8
5
$5.67K/$293K
Sarah-Sun avatar

Yuanyuan Sun

AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding

Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
0
$12K/$20K
mfatt avatar

Matthew Farr

[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
1
$700
Guy avatar

Guy

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
8
12
$10.3K/$32.2K
🐹

Tyler John

Philanthropic advising

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
4
$20K
tsvibt avatar

Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
10
11
$8.11K
johanf avatar

Johan Fredrikzon

Book: A History of AI x-risk (open access)

Building on a course I've been designing, I'm writing a short book on the history of existential risk from AI for a general audience

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$25/$70K
🐯

Scott Viteri

Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs

Compute Funding

Technical AI safety
4
2
$3.1K
MHI1997 avatar

Mohamed Hussein Iman

AI and Human Rights pre-doctoral research fellowship

Funding research in to AI's current and future impact on our individual freedoms.

AI governance
0
0
$0/$58.2K
CeSIA avatar

Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

AI Safety Atlas

Distilling AI safety research into a complete learning ecosystem: textbook, courses, guides, videos, and more.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
12
13
$1.23K/$191K
jaiwithani avatar

Jai Dhyani

Luthien

Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
1
$20.5K
wiserhuman avatar

Francesca Gomez

Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems

Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
3
1
$10K/$65K
🐙

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

Establishing the Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society

Utilitarianism.net into Thai

EA community
4
1
$1.01K
liconstan avatar

Constance Li

Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area

Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates at Mox SF

Animal welfareEA community
5
3
$500/$12K
🐔

Ola Mardawi

Evaluating LLM Safety in a Multilingual World

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$300K
🐰

Lin Bowker-Lonnecker

Online Biosecurity Course Starting May 2025

Running the initial online version of a 4-week biosecurity course for 20-50 participants

AI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$6.01K
🐸

SaferAI

General support for SaferAI

Support for SaferAI’s technical and governance research and education programs to enable responsible and safe AI.

AI governance
3
1
$100K