Approved! Advocacy work to avert AI risks aligns with Manifund's charitable mission.

Approved; this sounds like an informative project!

Approved! Getting adoption for something like this seems like a clear win, and we're excited about the team.

Canceled the pending offers here! The grantee wrote: "I've completed the work this grant would have funded, but secured a better funding route for it, so I won't be accepting this grant. Please regrant these funds, or if necessary return them to the funder. Kindly treat this grant as withdrawn and closed on my end"

@amiralia Yep I see the ACH info, thanks! We'll send the payment today and then you should receive it within a few days.

Approved! Happy to support grantmaking.ai as always.

@amiralia yes! you or they can fill out this form: https://airtable.com/appOfJtzt8yUTBFcD/shrI3XFPivduhbnGa it asks for ACH details (bank account name, address, routing number, account number) as well as Manifund username and project link.

If that doesn't work feel free to just email the bank account info (hi@manifund.org) and we can handle it.

Approved! These sound like interesting research projects, and funding mentee projects is a good way to fieldbuild as well as directly producing research.

Approved! This sounds like a worthwhile research direction.

Approved! Happy to support grantmaking.ai as always

Approved! Happy to support Neel's regranting as always.

Approved! Excited to see how the pilot program goes.

Approved! Love to see research on verification.

Approved; this sounds like a great resource!

Approved! Excited to see work on democracy and civil society in the age of AI.

Approved! Sounds ambitious; I'm excited to see what the results are.

Approved! This seems like a great use of funds, comes highly endorsed, and fits squarely within Manifund's mission. Good luck!

@amiralia Hi! Sorry for the delayed response--we just rolled out a feature that allows grant agreements to be signed externally by organizations. I've reset your agreement so you can redo it as an organization: on https://manifund.org/projects/safeguarding-dna-synthesis-from-biological-risks-posed-by-advanced-ai/agreement, enter Georgia Tech Research Corporation's details and the email of GT's authorized signatory, and they'll receive a link to review and execute the agreement (they'll get a copy for their records). Once that's signed, you can withdraw the funds to GTRC at https://manifund.org/withdraw.

Let me know if you need the agreement as a PDF instead, or if you run into any issues!

@Petr_Salaba awesome thanks; I appreciate the update!

Approved! Metagame provides upskilling as a space for people to learn and allows people speakers to broadcast ideas and people to make connections they wouldn't have otherwise. Donations allow them to provide financial aid.

@Abungu- Great!

Approved; excited to see more diverse fieldbuilding!

Approved! This sounds great; excited for more geographically diverse fieldbuilding and especially in Hong Kong.

Approved--good luck with the project!

Approved--very interesting work!

@StevePetersen that's okay! We don't really have a system for this: I think your report was sufficient, it was just overlooked on our end.

As Steve was able to fund this project separately and stated that he wouldn't spend money from this application, I've returned the funds to the donors!

Update: since Andrew was unable to accept the funds, I returned the donation to the ACX grants account.

Approved! This seems like a good way to try to engage AI safety talent in India.

Approved! This sounds like interesting research.

I'm curious if there were results from this project; thanks!

@chi-nguyen It looks like this report is missing the text; I'm curious what the latest on this project is!

@Petr_Salaba I'm curious if you have any more updates on this project! Thanks!

Approved--it sounds like BAISH has successfully gotten many people working in AI safety!

Approved! This sounds like a plausible framing for movement-building.

Approved--excited for this project!

Approved! This sounds super interesting--good luck!

Approved! I think SPARC is a good program and influencing the trajectory of talented high schoolers can be valuable.

Approved! This sounds like a plausible policy that's worth understanding better.

Approved! This sounds like an interesting experiment, and I'm excited to be working with grantmaking.ai.

Approved this grant! I'm excited about research into verification tech for if/when it's needed, and excited to be working with grantmaking.ai on this funding round.