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AI governance

17 proposals
59 active projects
$3.67M
Grants195Impact certificates8
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Jacob Steinhardt

Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI

Technical AI safetyAI governance
5
2
$40.3K / $2M
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Alex Leader

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$0 / $3.85M
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David Krueger

Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit

Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
2
$5.18K / $1.5M
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Joseph E Brown

Architectural Governance to Prevent Authority Drift in AI Systems

A constraint-first approach to ensuring non-authoritative, fail-closed behavior in large language models under ambiguity and real-world pressure

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $30K
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Amrit Sidhu-Brar

Forethought

Research on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
4
2
$315K / $3.25M
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Lawrence Wagner

Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
1
$10K raised
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Mackenzie Conor James Clark

AURA Protocol: Measurable Alignment for Autonomous AI Systems

An open-source framework for detecting and correcting agentic drift using formal metrics and internal control kernels

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $75K
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Xyra Sinclair

SOTA Public Research Database + Search Tool

Unlocking the paradigm of agents + SQL + compositional vector search

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyBiomedicalAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20.7K
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Anthony Ware

Shallow Review of AI Governance: Mapping the Technical–Policy Implementation Gap

Identifying operational bottlenecks and cruxes between alignment proposals and executable governance.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $23.5K
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Mirco Giacobbe

Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety

Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
1
$128K raised
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Gergő Gáspár

Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety 

Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
9
6
$520 raised
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Will Shin

Building an Educational Universe Through Animals and Longtermist Storytelling

A global IP project reimagining ecology and future technology and institutions through character-driven narratives.

Science & technologyAI governanceAnimal welfareBiosecurityEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $15K
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Evžen Wybitul

Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop

AI governance
1
3
$1.3K raised
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

From Nobel Signatures to Binding Red Lines: The 2026 Diplomatic Sprint

Leveraging 12 Nobel signatories to harmonize lab safety thresholds and secure an international agreement during the 2026 diplomatic window.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
6
0
$0 / $400K
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Chris Canal

Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure

Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurity
3
7
$400K raised
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Muhammad Ahmad

Building Frontier AI Governance Capacity in Africa (Pilot Phase)

A pilot to build policy and technical capacity for governing high-risk AI systems in Africa

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Sandy Tanwisuth

Alignment as epistemic system governance under compression

We reframe the alignment problem as the problem of governing meaning and intent when they cannot be fully expressed.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $20K
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David Rozado

Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems

An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyACX Grants 2025AI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$50K raised
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Brian McCallion

Boundary-Mediated Models of LLM Hallucination and Alignment

A mechanistic, testable framework explaining LLM failure modes via boundary writes and attractor dynamics

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $75K
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Christopher Kuntz

Protocol-Level Interaction Risk Assessment and Mitigation (UIVP)

A bounded protocol audit and implementation-ready mitigation for intent ambiguity and escalation in deployed LLM systems.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $5K