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Global catastrophic risks

8 proposals
41 active projects
$1.93M
Grants157Impact certificates8
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Act Write Here

Building an Infrastructure to Create High-Impact Narratives

Creating a scalable on-ramp for writers and actors to engage with impact issues through cause-area storytelling competitions and creative collaborations.

Animal welfareBiosecurityEA communityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
11
8
$50 / $450K
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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
1
0
$39K 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
1
1
$50K / $150K
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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
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David Carel

Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025BiomedicalBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
0
1
$150K 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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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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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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Andrei Tumas

Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
5
$11.5K raised
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Aditya Arpitha Prasad

Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
3
$15K raised
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Micheal smith

Guardian AI

A National AI Co-Pilot for Emergency Response

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
0
0
$0 / $80K
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Selma Mazioud

Travel grant to attend San Diego Alignment Workshop and NeurIPS

Attending NeurIPS and the San Diego AI Alignment Workshop to advance research on neural network safety and complexity.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.88K
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Aditya Raj

6-month research funding to challenge current AI safety methods

Current LLM safety methods—treat harmful knowledge as removable chunks. This is controlling a model and it does not work.

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 / $16.5K
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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
4
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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Chi Nguyen

Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
8
3
$70K raised
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Connor Axiotes

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

Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
19
46
$205K raised
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Kristina Vaia

AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)

The official AI safety community in Los Angeles

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
9
$2.5K 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
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Muhammad Ahmad Janyau

Responsible AI Governance Initiative (RAI-GI)

Elevating Africa’s Missing Voice in Global AI Safety

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 raised