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AI governance

11 proposals
58 active projects
$3.17M
Grants185Impact certificates8
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Brian McCallion

Boundary-Mediated Models of LLM Hallucination and Alignment

A mechanistic, testable framework explaining LLM failure modes via boundary writes and attractor dynamics

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $75K
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Christopher Kuntz

Protocol-Level Interaction Risk Assessment and Mitigation (UIVP)

A bounded protocol audit and implementation-ready mitigation for intent ambiguity and escalation in deployed LLM systems.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $5K
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Jasraj Hari Krishna Budigam

TimeAlign v2: contamination-aware evals for small models (16GB GPUs)

Reusable, low-compute benchmarking that detects data leakage, outputs “contamination cards,” and improves calibration reporting.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $46K
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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 / $400K
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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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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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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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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
10
4
$50K raised
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Sam Nadel

How to mobilize people on AI risk: experimental message testing

Experimental message testing and historical analysis of tech movements to identify how to effectively mobilize people around AI safety and governance

AI governance
3
0
$0 / $52.7K
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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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Nicole Mutung'a

6 Month Stipend to Support a Transition to AI Governance Work

Funding research on how AI hype cycles can drive unsafe AI development

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 / $7.5K
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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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Cillian Crosson

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

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

AI governance
9
5
$27.6K / $200K
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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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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
35
$29.7K raised

Unfunded Projects

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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
1
$0 raised