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9 proposals
26 active projects
$581K
Grants136Impact certificates21
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Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

Science & technologyBiomedical
3
8
$4.11K raised
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Dhruv Sumathi

AI For Humans Workshop and Hackathon at Edge Esmeralda

Talks and a hackathon on AI safety, d/acc, and how to empower humans in a post-AGI world.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $15K
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Coursetexts

Open sourcing advanced science graduate courses at scale, to democratize higher level education.

Science & technology
2
2
$2.5K raised
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Jared Mantell

Augmentation Lab 2025: Prototyping Human-Aligned Futures

A 10-week Harvard/MIT residency exploring human augmentation via 'Rhizome Futurism' to build an interconnected, beneficial future.

Science & technology
2
0
$0 / $30K
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Florian Dietz

Split Personality Training

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
3
$3K raised
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Connor Axiotes

'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

Filming a feature-length documentary on risks from AI for a non-technical audience on streaming services

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
14
28
$47.6K raised
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Guy

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
10
22
$14.4K raised
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Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
12
15
$17.9K raised
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Francisco Carvalho

Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
2
1
$2.63K / $100K
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AI Safety India

Fundamentals of Safe AI - Practical Track (Open Globally)

Bridging Theory to Practice: A 10-week program building AI safety skills through hands-on application

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $34.2K
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Matthew Farr

[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
1
$700 raised
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Tahir Mahmood Saleh

NeoVoltaic: Saving Newborn Lives with Solar Power in Rural Nigeria

Providing Solar-Powered Phototherapy and Maternal Health Education to Prevent Newborn Deaths from Jaundice in Rural Nigeria.

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
-1
4
$0 / $60K
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Isaak Freeman

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

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Science & technologyBiomedical
9
13
$17.6K / $100K
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Lara Nguyen

Advancing AI Safety: A Structured Path to Impact

A Six-Month Journey to Transition into AI Safety and Build the Skills Needed for a Safer AI Future

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
0
0
$0 / $20K
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Elizabeth Van Nostrand

Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)

Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).

Science & technologyEA community
4
11
$7.81K raised
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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
36
29
$82K raised

Complete Projects

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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
14
13
$119K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Alana Andrews

30in30: Empowering 30,000 Students in 30 Days

Igniting the mindset behind success—30,000 students, one global confidence revolution

Science & technologyGlobal health & development
1
1
$0 raised
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Georg Lange

Travel Funding to present research at ICLR2025

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
4
0
$0 raised
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Allan Murimi Wandia

LambdaZero

LambdaZero An AI-Powered Research Engine for Science

Science & technologyBiomedical
0
0
$0 raised