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AI governance

8 proposals
49 active projects
$2.38M
Grants165Impact certificates8
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Orpheus Lummis

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026

Seminars on quantitative/guaranteed AI safety (formal methods, verification, mech-interp), with recordings, debates, and the guaranteedsafe.ai community hub.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
2
$4.3K / $30K
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Rufo Guerreschi

The Deal of the Century (for AI)

Persuading a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a bold, timely and proper US-China-led global AI treaty

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
5
$10.1K raised
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Ethan Nelson

Scaling Public Understanding of AI Alignment and Existential Risk

Leveraging a 23K Subscriber Channel to Advance AI Safety Discourse

Technical AI safetyAI governance
2
1
$100 / $20K
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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
10
2
$30.3K / $50K
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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
2
$30 / $226K
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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
0
$0 / $1.75K
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Cillian Crosson

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

$200k in 1:1 matched funding to support reporting on AI.

AI governance
7
3
$20.1K / $200K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People

20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers

Technical AI safetyAI governance
8
33
$29.2K raised
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Jhet Chan

Travel Funding to present research at NeurIPS 2025

A self-funded researcher presenting at NeurIPS NeurReps to showcase a new approach to geometry and cognition.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $5K
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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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Nathan Barnard

Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation

Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities.

AI governance
3
2
$9K raised
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Connor Axiotes

Making God's Post-Production: Aiming for Netflix

Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
7
$550 raised
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Petr Salaba

Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment

work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
6
5
$100K 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
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39
$131K raised
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Hieu Minh Nguyen

Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics

LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
4
1
$3K raised
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Muhammad Ahmad Janyau

Responsible AI Governance Initiative (RAI-GI)

Elevating Africa’s Missing Voice in Global AI Safety

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
0
0
$0 / $25K
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Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority

Technical AI safetyAI governance
0
1
$87.5K raised
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Kristina Vaia

AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)

The official AI safety community in Los Angeles

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
9
$2.5K raised
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Connor Axiotes

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

Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
19
46
$205K raised

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