Project summary

AIR is a framework for Alignment on Uniform Power Distribution through AI-Empowered Human Capacity Development. This Alignment operates over a Unified Scope for AI safety and governance, enabling us to collectively address the interconnected crises of poverty, unemployment, misinformation, and ecological degeneration.

We provide Guides and tools to help Researchers and Engineers coordinate in any topic they choose, aligning all contributions with Four Routes for Effective Altruism, operationalization of AI safety and Good Governance interventions.

MVP - Working Prototype: https://air.gyrogovernance.com/

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

We provide protocols as shared infrastructure to help contributors research and build solutions to today’s most urgent crises in the age of Transformative AI, and we welcome anyone who wants to contribute, without credential or hiring gatekeeping.

How will this funding be used?

AIR Budget Plan (12 months)

Funding levels and what changes

Minimum: $50,000

• Goal: Run and Promote a pilot version on a solo basis

• Success criteria:

  • 1 working local-first app prototype released open source

  • 10 Fellows complete a pilot run using it

  • At least 20 verified work submissions routed through the workflow

Standard: $150,000

• Goal: Build more features faster and run a larger pilot with more labs

• Success criteria:

  • Stable beta release plus onboarding docs

  • 30 Fellows complete pilot runs

  • At least 100 verified work submissions

  • At least 2 repeat projects run by partner labs

Optimal: $500,000

• Goal: Deliver a production-ready app plus adoption support and micro-grants channel for contributors.

• Success criteria:

  • Production-ready v1 release with upgrades based on pilot feedback

  • 1000 Fellows onboarded

  • At least 500 verified work submissions

  • At least 10 completed lab projects run end to end through the system

More funding increases delivery speed, adoption capacity, and opens up routes for providing micro-grants to our Fellows. It does not change the core mission.

Optimal: Budget Breakdown: $500,000

1) Staff: $390,000

• Research Director (me, full time): $140,000
  Product direction, research-to-product translation, lab partnerships

• Operations Lead (full time): $95,000
  Community onboarding, program execution, grant admin, fiscal host coordination

• Software Engineer (full time): $90,000
  App build, local-first sync, reliability, releases, maintenance

• Community and Training Coordinator (full time): $65,000
  Fellowship onboarding, training delivery, pilot support, communications

2) Programs: $45,000

• Compute and API costs: $15,000
  Testing integrations and running evaluation-style pilots with labs

• Pilot support and participant stipends: $20,000
  Targeted support to ensure pilot runs complete with usable feedback

• Workshops and outreach: $10,000
  Onboarding sessions for labs and new fellows, mostly online

3) Admin and compliance: $40,000

• Fiscal sponsor and compliance costs: $35,000
  Assumes a 7 percent fiscal sponsorship fee on $500,000

• Legal and accounting: $3,000
  Contracts, compliance review

• Tools and basic operations: $2,000
  Hosting, domains, communications, repo tooling

4) Buffer: $25,000

• Contingency for currency fluctuations, unexpected tooling needs, or pilot expansion

Total: $500,000

• Staff: $390,000

• Programs: $45,000

• Admin and compliance: $40,000

• Buffer: $25,000

Short justification

The research, core framework, and working prototype are already developed. This budget funds execution: testing the app, running pilots, onboarding fellows, and supporting adoption. The main cost is people because year 1 is an engineering and pilot rollout year.

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

I am a Senior Technologist operationalizing AI Safety standards (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, UNESCO AI Ethics) into production-ready infrastructure. I leverage 12+ years of executive R&D management and 8 years of frontier safety engineering to build alignment tooling that scales from research to governance.

My lab's website is: gyrogovernance.com

• Developed an epistemic AI safety risks taxonomy validated on 90M+ sparse autoencoder features across 16 language models (via Neuronpedia API).

• Built an Inspect AI evaluation suite with 20 metrics across 5 domains (hallucination, sycophancy, deception/goal drift diagnostics).

• Shipped socio-technical specifications and a custom llama.cpp kernel to support zero-trust AI governance architectures.

A team will be formed if upper funding levels will be secured, while the community can help as well, considering the open source nature of this project. With minimum funding I will have to continue alone. Not optimal, but I can do it with the help of the community.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

This project addresses a serious gap that affects the whole domain of AI Safety. It has to succeed and I am determined to pivot as much as necessary so to scale it properly. I work over 12 h per day, 7 days a week, no holidays, without financial support and I am determined to provide a solution to systemic discrimination. I have done all the hard work of building epistemic foundations around AI Risks mitigations, an extensive stack for AI safety empowering participatory governance, while also engineered the MVP for AI Safety Ops. Even if I won't get funding, I'll keep going.

It will fail if nobody signs, and I won't manage to get traction. The causes are noise. I also find it difficult to gain trust from funders because I am working alone. But as of now, in Greece, we don't have any proper infrastructure and the domain is not friendly to people who are misfits like myself.

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

I also applied here: https://app.grantmaking.ai/projects/3293890b-43f4-405f-ac62-20d37149278a

No money raised yet.