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AI governance

10 proposals
55 active projects
$3M
Grants175Impact certificates8
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Dr. Jacob Livingston Slosser

Do humans maintain independence in normative decision-making when using AI?

Help get the Sapien Institute off the ground

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $160K
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Pedro Bentancour Garin

Global Governance & Safety Layer for Advanced AI Systems - We Stop Rogue AI

Building the first external oversight and containment framework + high-rigor attack/defense benchmarks to reduce catastrophic AI risk.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $350K
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Agwu Naomi Nneoma

Nneoma Agwu — Building a Career in AI Governance to Reduce Long-Term Risks.

Funding a Master's in AI, Ethics & Society to transition into AI governance and long-term risk mitigation, and safety-focused policy development.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Martin Percy

The Race to Superintelligence: You Decide

An experimental AI-generated sci-fi film dramatising AI safety choices. Using YT interactivity to get ≈880 conscious AI safety decisions per 1k viewers.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$50 / $24.4K
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Atmadeep Ghoshal

Building a AI harm taxonomy for India

AI governanceEA community
1
0
$0 / $2K
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Chris Canal

Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure

Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurity
3
7
$400K 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 raised
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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.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
5
3
$30K raised
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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
3
5
$11.1K raised
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Armon Lotfi

When Safety Testing Costs More Than Model Training

Multi-agent AI security testing that reduces evaluation costs by 10-20x without sacrificing detection quality

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$999 / $15K
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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
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4
$50K raised
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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
3
$1.8K raised
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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
4
$2.53K raised
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Cillian Crosson

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

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

AI governance
8
4
$27.6K / $200K
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Akshyae Singh

The first AI Safety Creator Affiliate Program

Scaling AI safety research to 10M+ people through the first distributed content creation project

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityForecasting
0
0
$0 / $55K
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Jared Johnson

Beyond Compute: Persistent Runtime AI Behavioral Conditioning w/o Weight Changes

Runtime safety protocols that modify reasoning, without weight changes. Operational across GPT, Claude, Gemini with zero security breaches in classified use

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $125K
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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
34
$29.7K raised
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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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Faisal Moarafur Rasul

Inquiro: Building a Global Hub for Understanding AI

A media and learning platform exploring how AI thinks — featuring Philosopher AI, an educative system that explains its reasoning.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$0 / $10K

Unfunded Projects

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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
1
4
$0 raised