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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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Remmelt Ellen

11th edition of AI Safety Camp

Cost-efficiently support new careers and new organisations in AI Safety.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0/$400K
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Dan Hendrycks

AI Safety & Society

High-quality, timely articles on AI safety

2
1
$250K/$250K
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Epoch AI

Pilot for new benchmark by Epoch AI

For tracking and predicting future AI progress to AGI

Technical AI safetyAI governance
2
2
$200K/$200K
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Center for AI Policy

Support CAIP’s Advocacy Work in 2025

Advocating for U.S. federal AI safety legislation to reduce catastrophic AI risk.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$689K
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Mikolaj Kniejski

Shallow review of cost-effectivness of technical AI safety orgs

Do ACE-style cost-effectivness analysis of technical AI safety orgs.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
3
7
$1.3K/$3K
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Arkose

Arkose

AI safety outreach to experienced machine learning professionals

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$383K
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Matías Ciruelos

Help me create a free programming school in my city

Science & technology
0
5
$800
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AgentForge

Raspberry: Open-Source CoT Reasoning Dataset for Finetuning LLMs

Publishing an open-source dataset and methodology to enhance reasoning abilities in Large Language Models through finetuning.

Science & technology
1
2
$10/$10K
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Iván Arcuschin Moreno

Mechanistic Interpretability research for unfaithful chain-of-thought (1 month)

Iván and Jett are seeking funding to research unfaithful chain-of-thought, under Arthur Conmy's mentorship, for a month before the start of MATS.

Technical AI safety
2
2
$11K
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Yanni Kyriacos

Help launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)!

3
2
$14.9K
🥑

Murray Buchanan

Live Governance

Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$20/$6K
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Dr. Faraz Harsini

Universities: Building a strong, unified animal advocacy network with ASAP

Revolutionizing animal advocacy in universities.

Animal welfare
4
1
$125/$22K
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Tom David

1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings

2
1
$1.3K
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Elliot Davies

Support the Better Career Pledge

A promise to serve others

1
0
$0/$2K
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Amritanshu Prasad

6 month review project on Lessons from Nuclear Policymaking for AI Policy

Science & technologyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0/$25K
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Marisa Nguyen Olson

Building an AI Accountability Hub

Case Study: Defending OpenAI's Nonprofit Mission

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$15/$100K
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Sterlin Lujan

Polis Labs - A Post-Moloch Research Institute

Grant to Get the Institute Moving at Lightspeed

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0/$1.35M
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Tyler Johnston

The Midas Project

AI-focused corporate campaigns and industry watchdog

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
2
$0/$119K

Unfunded Projects

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Orpheus Lummis

Horizon Events 2025

Non-profit facilitating progress in AI safety R&D through events

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
6
6
$0
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Michel Justen

Video essay on risks from AI accelerating AI R&D

Help turn the video from an amateur side-project to into an exceptional, animated distillation

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
5
$0
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Including 582 projects in all stages and from all rounds.

Seeking funding

remmelt avatar

Remmelt Ellen

11th edition of AI Safety Camp

Cost-efficiently support new careers and new organisations in AI Safety.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0/$400K
hendrycks avatar

Dan Hendrycks

AI Safety & Society

High-quality, timely articles on AI safety

2
1
$250K/$250K
🦑

Epoch AI

Pilot for new benchmark by Epoch AI

For tracking and predicting future AI progress to AGI

Technical AI safetyAI governance
2
2
$200K/$200K
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Center for AI Policy

Support CAIP’s Advocacy Work in 2025

Advocating for U.S. federal AI safety legislation to reduce catastrophic AI risk.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$689K
Mikolaj-Kniejski avatar

Mikolaj Kniejski

Shallow review of cost-effectivness of technical AI safety orgs

Do ACE-style cost-effectivness analysis of technical AI safety orgs.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
3
7
$1.3K/$3K
Arkose avatar

Arkose

Arkose

AI safety outreach to experienced machine learning professionals

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$383K
matiasciruelos avatar

Matías Ciruelos

Help me create a free programming school in my city

Science & technology
0
5
$800
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AgentForge

Raspberry: Open-Source CoT Reasoning Dataset for Finetuning LLMs

Publishing an open-source dataset and methodology to enhance reasoning abilities in Large Language Models through finetuning.

Science & technology
1
2
$10/$10K
iarcuschin avatar

Iván Arcuschin Moreno

Mechanistic Interpretability research for unfaithful chain-of-thought (1 month)

Iván and Jett are seeking funding to research unfaithful chain-of-thought, under Arthur Conmy's mentorship, for a month before the start of MATS.

Technical AI safety
2
2
$11K
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Yanni Kyriacos

Help launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)!

3
2
$14.9K
🥑

Murray Buchanan

Live Governance

Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$20/$6K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
13
9
$67.6K
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Dr. Faraz Harsini

Universities: Building a strong, unified animal advocacy network with ASAP

Revolutionizing animal advocacy in universities.

Animal welfare
4
1
$125/$22K
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Gavin Leech

Shallow review of AI safety 2024

9
11
$20.9K
🐬

Tom David

1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings

2
1
$1.3K
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Leonard Barrett

Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament

Science & technologyGlobal health & development
2
2
$2.5K
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Piotr Zaborszczyk

AI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester)

Reach the university that trained close to 20% of OpenAI early employees

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
5
5
$10K
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Elliot Davies

Support the Better Career Pledge

A promise to serve others

1
0
$0/$2K
🐹

Elizabeth Van Nostrand

EVN General Support Application

1
3
$50K

Complete Projects

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PauseAI US

PauseAI US 2025 through Q2

SFF main round did us dirty!

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
13
23
$100K