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Global catastrophic risks

9 proposals
36 active projects
$1.67M
Grants152Impact certificates8
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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.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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$4.3K / $30K
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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
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5
$11.1K raised
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Micheal smith

Guardian AI

A National AI Co-Pilot for Emergency Response

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
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0
$0 / $80K
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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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$2.53K / $226K
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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
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$11K / $200K
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Selma Mazioud

Travel grant to attend San Diego Alignment Workshop and NeurIPS

Attending NeurIPS and the San Diego AI Alignment Workshop to advance research on neural network safety and complexity.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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0
$0 / $2.88K
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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
2
$15K / $30K
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Aditya Raj

6-month research funding to challenge current AI safety methods

Current LLM safety methods—treat harmful knowledge as removable chunks. This is controlling a model and it does not work.

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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$0 / $16.5K
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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
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7
$550 raised
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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
8
3
$70K 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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$205K 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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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
0
0
$0 / $25K
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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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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

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
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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
1
3
$0 raised