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10 proposals
30 active projects
$775K
Grants162Impact certificates21
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Fred Heiding

AI scam research targeting seniors

A microgrant to help us scale our research on AI-assisted online scams by building real-world defenses for seniors and collecting data for ScamBench.

Science & technologyAI governance
1
5
$10K 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
0
$0 / $50K
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Kris | @LabMeatGuy

Viral Videos on Cultivated Meat (more!)

We just reached 500K+ views in <1 month ($0 ad spend) and want to continue making viral content on cultivated meat (to end factory farming!)

Science & technologyAnimal welfareEA community
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Bryce Meyer

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
7
4
$30K 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 / $150K
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niplav

Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

Science & technologyBiomedical
10
18
$5.17K raised
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Sarah Wiegreffe

The First Actionable Interpretability Workshop at ICML 2025

https://actionable-interpretability.github.io/

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
1
$1.5K 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
19
46
$205K raised
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Poplett

EchoKey V10

Mathematical Machine Intelligence Branch. - Updated

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
-1
1
$0 / $10K
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Nicole Doyle

Aspir

Science & technologyGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Fred Heiding

AI scam research targeting seniors

A microgrant to help us disseminate our work on AI scams targeting seniors and present it at BSides Las Vegas, DEF CON, and other conferences

Science & technologyAI governance
2
2
$4.5K raised
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Kaynen B Pellegrino

Support SyberSuite: The first real Governance Platform for AI

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $15K
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sonu

The Interpretability On-Ramp: A Comprehensive Guide for New Researchers

An 11-month project to create an open-source curriculum by documenting a journey from fundamentals to novel mechanistic interpretability research.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA community
0
0
$0 / $36.5K
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Arifa Khan

Preventing AI Catastrophe Through Economic Mechanisms

The Reputation Circulation Standard - Implementation Sprint

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Davit Jintcharadze

Support Open Evaluations of Impactful Research for The Unjournal

The Unjournal is making research better by evaluating what really matters. We aim to make rigorous research more impactful and impactful research more rigorous.

Science & technologyGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $137K
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Guy

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
10
24
$17.8K raised
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tamar rott shaham

The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
2
$1.5K 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
15
$18K raised
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Coursetexts

Coursetexts

Open sourcing advanced science graduate courses at scale, to democratize higher level education.

Science & technology
2
3
$2.54K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Itay Yona

Cultivating a Mechanistic Interpretability Community

Sustaining and Scaling a Grassroots Research Collective for Neural Network Interpretability and Control

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA community
4
2
$0 raised