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Global catastrophic risks

8 proposals
24 active projects
$845K
Grants95Impact certificates7

Seeking funding

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McKim Jean-Pierre

TechnoEthos: A Dual Focus on Research and Technical Upskilling for Tech Ethics

Help me, an economic historian from an underrepresented background, develop tech skills and reflect on adv. technologies to pivot to an AI governance career.

Science & technologyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0/$38K
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Jonathan Claybrough

Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences

5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers

BiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$450/$5.5K
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Rufo guerreschi

Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI

Catalyzing a uniquely bold, timely and effective treaty-making process for AI

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0/$25K
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Jay Luong

Help me to attend a spring school on AI that I am coorganising

Travel/Accommodation support for a lead coorganiser of the Ethos+Tékhnē spring school

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0/$1K
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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
4
2
$30K/$689K
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Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

Establishing Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society

Bringing Utilitarianism to Thai Society

Science & technologyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0/$8K
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Arkose

Arkose

AI safety outreach to experienced machine learning professionals

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
0
$10/$383K
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Murray Buchanan

Live Governance

Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$3K
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ampdot

Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction

Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems

Technical AI safetyEA Community ChoiceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
27
98
$67.8K
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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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Nuño Sempere

Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025

A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities

BiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
13
18
$27.1K
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Jørgen Ljønes

80,000 Hours

We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityEA Community ChoiceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
12
13
$4.92K
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Jordan Braunstein

Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination

Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.

Science & technologyAI governanceEA Community ChoiceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
6
25
$822
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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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Oliver Habryka

Lightcone Infrastructure

Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA Community ChoiceEA communityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
35
28
$80.9K
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Alex Lintz

Funding for AI safety comms strategy & career transition support

Mostly retroactive funding for prior work on AI safety comms strategy as well as career transition support. 

AI governanceLong-Term Future FundGlobal catastrophic risks
3
4
$39K

Complete Projects

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PauseAI US

PauseAI US 2025 through Q2

SFF main round did us dirty!

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
14
23
$100K

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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Tyler Johnston

The Midas Project

AI-focused corporate campaigns and industry watchdog

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
2
$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