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Global catastrophic risks

18 proposals
46 active projects
$2.97M
Grants183Impact certificates8
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Melina Moreira Campos Lima

Public Food Procurement as a Climate Policy Tool in the EU

Assessing the Climate Potential of Catering Systems in Public Schools and Hospitals

Science & technologyAnimal welfareGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $30K
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Sara Holt

Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Short Documentary and Music Video

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $40K
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Avinash A

Terminal Boundary Systems and the Limits of Self-Explanation

Formalizing the "Safety Ceiling": An Agda-Verified Impossibility Theorem for AI Alignment

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $30K
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AI Safety Nigeria

Learn & Launch: Monthly Training and Mentorship for Early-Stage AI Safety & Gov.

A low-cost, high-leverage capacity-building program for early-career AI safety and governance practitioners

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.5K
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Feranmi Williams

Mitigating Systemic Risks of Unchecked AI Deployment

A field-led policy inquiry using Nigeria’s MSME ecosystem as a global stress-test for Agentic AI governance.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
2
$0 / $8K
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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
5
3
$5.28K / $1.5M
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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
3
$365K / $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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Ella Wei

Technical Implementation of the Tiered Invariants AI Governance Architecture

Achieving major reductions in code complexity and compute overhead while improving transparency and reducing deceptive model behavior

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20K
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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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Finn Metz

AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2

Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
6
$355K raised
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Preeti Ravindra

Addressing Agentic AI Risks Induced by System Level Misalignment

AI Safety Camp 2026 project: Bidirectional Failure modes between security and safety

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
6
1
$0 / $4K
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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 governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $75K
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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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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
1
$0 / $23.5K
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Jade Master

SDCPNs for AI Safety

Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$39K 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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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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Orpheus Lummis

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026

Seminars on quantitative/guaranteed AI safety (formal methods, verification, mech-interp), with recordings, debates, and the guaranteedsafe.ai community hub.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
5
3
$30K raised