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ACX Grants 2025

9 proposals
16 active projects
$951K
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Gregory Sadler

Good Ancestors (Australia)

Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters.

ACX Grants 2025
3
2
$65K / $130K
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Screwworm Free Future

Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window

Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$50K raised
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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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Elaine Perlman

More End Kidney Deaths campaigning

Continue leading a national campaign to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), a bill projected to save 100,000 lives and $37B in taxpayer costs over the next decade.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$94K / $188K
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Micaella Rogers

Lead-acid battery recycling in Philippines

Develop and promote market-based policies to reduce informal lead-acid battery recycling in the Philippines.

ACX Grants 2025Global health & development
0
1
$50K / $100K
Misha Gurevich

make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection

Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$50K / $250K
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Alexander (Olek) Pisera

Scale up biologics manufacturing

Develop a system to enable scalable, cheap, yeast-based manufacturing of difficult biologics using a continuous in vivo evolution platform, facilitating cheaper medicines, new drugs, and broadening access in low-income countries by enabling manufacturing will less reliance on cold chains.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$50K / $100K
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Dan Elton

The Metascience Observatory

AI pipelines to conduct metascience research at scale, mapping how reproducibility and rigor vary across fields, countries, institutions, and journals.

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$25K raised
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Matthew Loftus

HIV/TB clinic in Africa

We want to integrate our HIV/TB clinic with our medical clinic at our hospital in rural Kenya and tell the world about it to promote conversations about how to continue providing excellent outpatient HIV/TB care as foreign aid to support these projects changes.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$45K raised
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Charlie Molthrop

Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces

Normie-friendly interfaces for prediction markets and their probabilities

ACX Grants 2025
1
4
$7K raised
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Venkata Subhash Chandra Sadhu

AI-assisted low-cost ultrasound scanner

Low-cost wearable ultrasound scanner backed with AI diagnostics available to people at home or in settings where hospitals are inaccessible

ACX Grants 2025BiomedicalGlobal health & development
0
2
$23K raised
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Harry Warne

Offline AI voice restoration device for people with voice disorders

I am developing a portable, offline AI assistive medical device which restores disordered speech to a clear, natural voice.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$25K raised
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Alejandro Acelas

AI to screen DNA orders

Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$24K raised
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Kasey Markel

Gene editing corn for nutrition

Use a new and more precise form of gene editing to increase the nutritional content of corn, primarily for Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$10K raised
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Adam Morris

Train LLMs in honest introspection

Train LLMs to accurately & honestly report on their internal decision-making processes through real-time introspection

Technical AI safetyACX Grants 2025
0
1
$15K raised
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Eli Elster

Native psilocybin use in Southern Africa

Continue documenting the indigenous use of native Psilocybe mushrooms in Lesotho, including the collection of physical samples, to identify novel medical applications of psilocybin.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$13K raised
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Felix Onyeka Nwose

Fish welfare training in Nigeria

Pilot a scalable, direct-to-farmer fish welfare program in Nigeria, training 400+ farmers across five clusters to adopt and maintain humane handling, slaughter, and welfare practices through hands-on field training and ongoing farm support.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$10K raised
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Saeed Ahmad

Epidemic preparedness in Liberia

Improve epidemic preparedness in Liberia through community-driven risk communication and rapid rumor management systems.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$10K raised
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Aaron Silverbook

"Sweeten" training corpuses with stories of nice AI

Flood the internet with stories about AI being nice, to nudge future AI training data nicer

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$5K raised