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AI governance

23 proposals
59 active projects
$3.72M
Grants201Impact certificates8
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Agwu Naomi Nneoma

Graduate Training for AI Governance and Long-Term Risk Reduction.

Building early-career capacity to reduce AI-driven societal and catastrophic risks through focused graduate study.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Sara Holt

Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Short Documentary and Music Video

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $40K
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Feranmi Williams

Mitigating Systemic Risks of Unchecked AI Deployment

A field-led policy inquiry using Nigeria’s MSME ecosystem as a global stress-test for Agentic AI governance.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
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2
$0 / $8K
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AI Safety Nigeria

Learn & Launch: Monthly Training and Mentorship for Early-Stage AI Safety & Gov.

A low-cost, high-leverage capacity-building program for early-career AI safety and governance practitioners

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.5K
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Jacob Steinhardt

Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI

Technical AI safetyAI governance
5
2
$40.3K / $2M
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David Krueger

Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit

Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI.

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
5
3
$5.28K / $1.5M
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Amrit Sidhu-Brar

Forethought

Research on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
4
3
$365K / $3.25M
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Lawrence Wagner

Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
1
$10K raised
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Ella Wei

Testing a Deterministic Safety Layer for Agentic AI (QGI Prototype)

A prototype safety engine designed to relieve the growing AI governance bottleneck created by the EU AI Act and global compliance demands.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20K
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Alex Leader

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
2
$0 / $3.85M
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Joseph E Brown

Architectural Governance to Prevent Authority Drift in AI Systems

A constraint-first approach to ensuring non-authoritative, fail-closed behavior in large language models under ambiguity and real-world pressure

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $30K
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Mirco Giacobbe

Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety

Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
1
$128K raised
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Mackenzie Conor James Clark

AURA Protocol: Measurable Alignment for Autonomous AI Systems

An open-source framework for detecting and correcting agentic drift using formal metrics and internal control kernels

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $75K
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Gergő Gáspár

Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety 

Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
9
6
$520 raised
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Evžen Wybitul

Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop

AI governance
1
3
$1.3K raised
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Xyra Sinclair

SOTA Public Research Database + Search Tool

Unlocking the paradigm of agents + SQL + compositional vector search

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyBiomedicalAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20.7K
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Anthony Ware

Shallow Review of AI Governance: Mapping the Technical–Policy Implementation Gap

Identifying operational bottlenecks and cruxes between alignment proposals and executable governance.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $23.5K
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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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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

From Nobel Signatures to Binding Red Lines: The 2026 Diplomatic Sprint

Leveraging 12 Nobel signatories to harmonize lab safety thresholds and secure an international agreement during the 2026 diplomatic window.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
6
0
$0 raised