Valence Engineering: a circuit-level science of human suffering

Stage 0 bridge for a focused-ultrasound research program targeting the neural architecture that maintains chronic suffering.

Independent Interpretability Research on Detecting Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs

University of Chicago Harris MA for AI Governance and Catastrophic AI Risk

Urgent funding needed by May 8 for graduate policy training focused on AI governance

Precautionary AGI Governance

Limited Legal Personhood as a Reversible Safety Instrument

Whitebox — AI consciousness and agency risk measurement and certification

Developing enforceable architectural constraints, safety mechanisms, and certification criteria to keep advanced AI systems aligned and non-conscious

Summer AI Safety Workshops For 6th-8th Graders in India

Inspiring India’s Middle‑Schoolers to pursue AI Safety, Governance, and X‑Risk Work

Hardening a fail-closed runtime for agentic AI systems

This round of funding will be used primarily for prototype hardening, artifact packaging, runtime evaluation, and preparation for external review.

Agent Foundations: Intermediate Divergence

Independent Researcher, 17, Indonesia: Foundational Theory Work on Intelligence

18+ preprints across multiple fields, all written on a 2GB RAM phone. $600 removes the only thing standing between me and the next body of work.

Mox: 2026 Fundraiser

An incubator & community space in SF; for doers of good and masters of craft

Three Impossibility Theorems for Behavioral AI Alignment

A 12-month axiomatic alignment program: Savage-dominated EU maxima, a Debreu theorem for attention, and a 5× RLHF preference-aggregation gap.

Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)

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

AI Risk Literacy for Clinicians: Building a Trusted Voice for AI Governance

A trusted profession that has advocated against existential risks like nuclear war can do so again for AI — but clinicians must first be made aware of the risks

Frontier AI Safety for Africa

Africa's Voice in Global AI Safety

Expanding Francophone Awareness of AI Safety Through The Flares

This is a small grant buying a large increase in high-quality Francophone AI risk communication from a creator who has already a track record.

DystopiaBench

A Safety Framework for Evaluating AI Humanity Alignment Through Progressive Escalation and Scope Creep

The AI Minute (Short-form content on AI Safety)

Gen-Z-focused multimedia project that will raise awareness of AI safety and x-risk

Ambitious AI Alignment Seminar

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

Integral Altruism

Salary & support for 1 year of leadership of Integral Altruism - a movement bridging EA with wisdom

Funding APC for BMJ Global Health paper on public health and existential risk

Covering the article processing charge for an accepted Analysis paper (Open Access) calling for collaboration between public health and existential risk studies