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AI governance

11 proposals
51 active projects
$2.97M
Grants170Impact certificates8
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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
2
1
$400K raised
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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
0
1
$50K / $150K
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Faisal Moarafur Rasul

Inquiro: Building a Global Hub for Understanding AI

A media and learning platform exploring how AI thinks — featuring Philosopher AI, an educative system that explains its reasoning.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $10K
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Armon Lotfi

When Safety Testing Costs More Than Model Training

Multi-agent AI security testing that reduces evaluation costs by 10-20x without sacrificing detection quality

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$999 / $15K
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Jared Johnson

Beyond Compute: Persistent Runtime AI Behavioral Conditioning w/o Weight Changes

Runtime safety protocols that modify reasoning, without weight changes. Operational across GPT, Claude, Gemini with zero security breaches in classified use

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $125K
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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
4
3
$4.3K raised
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Rufo Guerreschi

The Deal of the Century (for AI)

Persuading a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a bold, timely and proper US-China-led global AI treaty

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
5
$11.1K raised
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike

Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
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2
$1.75K / $1.75K
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Ethan Nelson

Scaling Public Understanding of AI Alignment and Existential Risk

Leveraging a 23K Subscriber Channel to Advance AI Safety Discourse

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
4
$600 / $20K
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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
10
4
$50K raised
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Leo Hyams

Fund a Fellow for the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship!

A 3-month fellowship in Cape Town, connecting a global cohort of talent to top mentors at MIT, Oxford, CMU, and Google DeepMind

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
8
4
$2.53K / $226K
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Cillian Crosson

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

$200k in 1:1 matched funding to support reporting on AI.

AI governance
8
4
$27.6K / $200K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People

20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers

Technical AI safetyAI governance
8
34
$29.7K raised
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Fred Heiding

AI scam research targeting seniors

A microgrant to help us scale our research on AI-assisted online scams by building real-world defenses for seniors and collecting data for ScamBench.

Science & technologyAI governance
2
5
$10K raised
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Nathan Barnard

Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation

Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities.

AI governance
3
2
$9K raised
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Apart Research

Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA community
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39
$131K raised
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Connor Axiotes

Making God's Post-Production: Aiming for Netflix

Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
7
$550 raised
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Petr Salaba

Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment

work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
6
5
$100K raised
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Hieu Minh Nguyen

Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics

LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
4
1
$3K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Akhil Puri

Drive Narrative Change To Reduce Global Catastrophic Risk: Reach 1.3M people

Original essays, videos on systemic alternatives to shift the Overton window, build cultural momentum for policies supporting long-term resilience & well-being

Science & technologyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
11
$0 raised