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Global catastrophic risks

12 proposals
44 active projects
$2.18M
Grants165Impact certificates8
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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
7
4
$500 raised
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Act Write Here

Building an Infrastructure to Create High-Impact Narratives

Creating a scalable on-ramp for writers and actors to engage with impact issues through cause-area storytelling competitions and creative collaborations.

Animal welfareBiosecurityEA communityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
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26
$250K / $450K
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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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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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Jade Master

SDCPNs for AI Safety

Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$39K 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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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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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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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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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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David Carel

Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025BiomedicalBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
0
1
$150K 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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Thane Ruthenis

Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
5
$11.5K raised
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Aditya Arpitha Prasad

Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
3
$15K raised
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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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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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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
4
7
$550 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
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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