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30 proposals
44 active projects
$2.06M
Grants233Impact certificates21
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Jessica P. Wang

Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)

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

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
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$520 / $285K
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Aashkaben Kalpesh Patel

Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris

Nutrition labels transformed food safety through informed consumer choice, help me do the same for AI and make this standard :)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
5
9
$125 / $3.04K
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Anthony Etim

Protecting GPU LLM inference from model-weight and IP theft (Research)

Defense-first monitoring and containment to reduce catastrophic AI risk from stolen frontier model weights

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $70K
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Larry Arnold

Red Set ProtoCell: An Open-Source Immune System for AI Models

A modular red-teaming and risk-evaluation framework for LLM safety

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $10K
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Vahit FERYAD

Verified GenAI: Agentic QC for Reliable Product Visualization

Build an agentic LLM+VLM pipeline that generates product visuals and automatically verifies identity, color, and artifacts, enabling scalable, trustworthy e-com

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $20K
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Adithyan Madhu

FLUQ: Restoring Trust through Decentralized Verifiable Randomness

Building an open-source protocol to ensure that digital luck and high-stakes selections are provably fair, transparent, and beyond the reach of centralized bias

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
0
$0 / $20K
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Cefiyana

Neuro-Safety: Reducing AI Latency for Bio-Safe Interaction

Developing an Edge-AI framework to reduce response latency to <0.6s, mitigating user cognitive stress and establishing "Digital Pharmacotherapy" standards.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyBiomedicalGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $12K
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Robert Craft

Project Title: The DAPRE Initiative - Research Foundation

Grant Request: £40,000 (Seed Funding) Duration: 6 Months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $55K
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AIVA OS: Causal Intelligence for Medicine

Reconstructs longitudinal patient state, identifies causal drivers, and runs simulations to prevent high severity clinical failures under fragmented data.

Science & technologyAI governanceGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $500K
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Igor Labutin

AI:Save Our Souls

A tech-infused immersive musical. Experience the future of storytelling where artificial intelligence meets the depths of human emotion.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
0
$0 / $120K
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Finn Metz

AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2

Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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$355K raised
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Mirco Giacobbe

Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety

Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
2
$128K raised
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Sara Holt

Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Short Documentary and Music Video

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $40K
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Justin Bianchini

FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias

A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias.

Science & technologyBiomedical
2
6
$5K raised
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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
5
9
$26.4K raised
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Melina Moreira Campos Lima

Public Food Procurement as a Climate Policy Tool in the EU

Assessing the Climate Potential of Catering Systems in Public Schools and Hospitals

Science & technologyAnimal welfareGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $30K
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Victor Hugo

OddScreener - real-time analytics for prediction markets

Real-time analytics terminal for Polymarket & Kalshi

Science & technology
1
0
$0 / $500
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Alex Leader

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$0 / $3.85M
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Ella Wei

Testing a Deterministic Safety Layer for Agentic AI (QGI Prototype)

A prototype safety engine designed to relieve the growing AI governance bottleneck created by the EU AI Act and global compliance demands.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20K

Unfunded Projects

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Avinash A

Terminal Boundary Systems and the Limits of Self-Explanation

Formalizing the "Safety Ceiling": An Agda-Verified Impossibility Theorem for AI Alignment

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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1
$0 raised