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Global catastrophic risks

8 proposals
36 active projects
$1.5M
Grants149Impact certificates8
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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
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1
$30 / $226K
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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
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0
$0 / $25K
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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
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11
$225 / $150K
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David Giagnocavo

FrameworkZero: International Hybrid-Technical AI Governance DAO

A foundational framework for responsible AI development

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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0
$0 / $23K
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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
0
$0 / $200K
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Lindsay Langenhoven

Amplifying AI extinction risk awareness before it’s too late

Support our mission to educate millions through podcasts and videos before unsafe AI development outruns human control.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
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3
$129 / $50K
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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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Aditya Arpitha Prasad

Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
0
$0 / $30K
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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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Chi Nguyen

Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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3
$70K 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
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46
$205K raised
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Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
6
2
$70K raised
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators

4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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13
$21.3K raised
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Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
13
20
$28K raised
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Florian Dietz

Split Personality Training

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
5
$3K raised
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ampdot

Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction

Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems

Technical AI safetyEA Community ChoiceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
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$67.8K raised
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Yuanyuan Sun

AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding

Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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4
$12.4K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Rufo Guerreschi

The Deal of the Century (on AI)

Persuading Key Influencers of Trump's AI Policy to Champion a Bold and Timely US-led Global AI Treaty

AI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 raised
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Shawn Kulasingham

‘Build Responsibly’ | A Documentary Making AI Safety Engaging for the Public.

Creating a cinematic AI safety documentary with entertainment value for the public. Need 5k to create trailer & foundational interviews.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 raised