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Global catastrophic risks

23 proposals
46 active projects
$3.12M
Grants195Impact certificates8
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Nicolaus Qammaniq

Project Title: "Publishing Constraint-Preserving AI Analysis of Critical Systems

Amount Requested: $2,500 Timeline: 3 weeks (March 1 - March 22, 2025) One-line Summary: Funding to publish constraint-based dependency analysis of China's semic

Technical AI safetyAI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.5K
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AISA

AI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026

Translating in-person convening to measurable outcomes

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$100K / $100K
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Jessica P. Wang

Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)

Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by artificial intelligence.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
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14
$560 / $156K
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Aashkaben Kalpesh Patel

Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris

Nutrition labels transformed food safety through informed consumer choice, help me do the same for AI and make this standard :)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
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9
$145 / $3.04K
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Mateusz Bagiński

Ambitious AI Alignment Seminar

One Month to Study, Explain, and Try to Solve Superintelligence Alignment

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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15
$5.5K / $180K
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Anthony Etim

Protecting GPU LLM inference from model-weight and IP theft (Research)

Defense-first monitoring and containment to reduce catastrophic AI risk from stolen frontier model weights

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $70K
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Larry Arnold

Red Set ProtoCell: An Open-Source Immune System for AI Models

A modular red-teaming and risk-evaluation framework for LLM safety

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $10K
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Tomasz Kiliańczyk

"Emergent Depopulation": Translation and Publication

Translating an AI safety report (1k+ downloads) for peer-reviewed publication to formalize "Emergent Depopulation" as a novel systemic risk.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.5K
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Robert Craft

Project Title: The DAPRE Initiative - Research Foundation

Grant Request: £40,000 (Seed Funding) Duration: 6 Months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $55K
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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
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3
$365K / $3.25M
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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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Lawrence Wagner

Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
3
$11K raised
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Jess Hines (Fingerprint Content)

Department of Future Listening: Narrative Risk Radar (UK pilot)

Detect polarising story-frames early and build better narratives—fast, practical, adoptable.

AI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $300K
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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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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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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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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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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

Unfunded Projects

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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
7
1
$0 raised
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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
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1
$0 raised