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12 proposals
36 active projects
$1.13M
Grants183Impact certificates21
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Theia Vogel

Fund thebes' model tinkering

Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models

Science & technology
2
5
$25.1K raised
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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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Akshyae Singh

The first AI Safety Creator Affiliate Program

Scaling AI safety research to 10M+ people through the first distributed content creation project

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityForecasting
1
0
$0 / $55K
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Markus Englund

Software to detect data fabrication

Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025
1
1
$50K 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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sung hun kwag

Seeking domesticated results, or unleashing wild intelligence?

Ready to bankroll real uncertainty, or just another round of legible comfort?

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA community
0
0
$0 / $25K
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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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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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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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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
1
3
$1.75K 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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Chris Wendler

Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS

Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
3
$1.1K raised
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Quentin Feuillade--Montixi

AI-Powered Knowledge Management System for Alignment Research

Funding to cover the first 4 month and relocating to San Francisco

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
2
$50 / $20K
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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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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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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

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