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Technical AI safety

14 proposals
58 active projects
$3.55M
Grants169Impact certificates20
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Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
4
2
$60K / $800K
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Jaeson Booker

The AI Safety Research Fund

Creating a fund exclusively focused on supporting AI Safety Research

Technical AI safety
1
16
$100 / $100K
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Igor Ivanov

Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox

Technical AI safety
1
1
$3K 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
30
36
$131K raised
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Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
5
2
$70K raised
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Jim Maar

Implicit planning in LLMs Paper

Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively

Technical AI safety
1
1
$1K / $1K
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The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
2
$1.5K raised
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Miles Tidmarsh

Synthetic pretraining to make AIs more compassionate

Enabling Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML) to develop methods and data to shift future AI values

Technical AI safetyAnimal welfare
3
0
$0 / $159K
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Cameron Berg

Am I? — A research documentary at the edge of machine consciousness

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
0
4
$75 / $85K
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Astelle Kay

VSPE Flattery-Reduction Benchmark & Licensing Pilot

Open benchmark and turnkey license that helps AI teams curb flattery in frontier models via the four-step VSPE Framework

Technical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$0 / $9.8K
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Connor Axiotes

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

Filming a feature-length documentary on risks from AI for a non-technical audience on streaming services

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
14
30
$204K raised
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators

4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
11
10
$21.3K raised
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Amritanshu Prasad

Suav Tech, an AI Safety evals for-profit

General Support for an AI Safety evals for-profit

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
4
0
$0 / $1.2M
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Sandy Fraser

Concept-anchored representation engineering for alignment

New techniques to impose minimal structure on LLM internals for monitoring, intervention, and unlearning.

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
1
$0 / $72.3K
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Florian Dietz

Split Personality Training

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
3
$3K raised
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Mox

Mox, a coworking & events space in SF

For AI safety, AI labs, EA charities & startups

Technical AI safetyEA community
9
7
$252K / $400K
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Evžen Wybitul

Travel funding to present a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $2.5K
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Guy

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
10
23
$16.9K raised
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Ronak Mehta

Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.

Funding for a new nonprofit organization focusing on accelerating and automating safety work.

Technical AI safety
10
3
$40.1K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Carlos Rafael Giudice

Cash runway while I go through interviews/wait for OpenPhil's grant decision

I've self funded my ramp up for six months and interview/grant processes are taking longer than expected.

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 raised