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6 proposals
30 active projects
$780K
Grants151Impact certificates21
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Beginnings for a multimodal model with lifelong learning and autonomous outputs.

To do what the labs cannot: eliminate hallucinations, solve alignment, and create AGI... all at once. They are related issues, after all.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
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0
$0 / $100K
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Bryce Meyer

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
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2
$18K 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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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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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
$5.07K 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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35
$205K raised
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The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

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

Coursetexts

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

Science & technology
2
3
$2.54K 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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Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Science & technologyBiomedicalGlobal catastrophic risks
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15
$17.9K raised
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Francisco Carvalho

Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

Science & technologyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
2
1
$2.63K / $100K
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Isaak Freeman

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

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Science & technologyBiomedical
10
13
$17.6K / $100K
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Matthew Farr

[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
1
$700 raised
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Robert looman

GENESIS Protocol: Building Safe, Transparent AGI

Building a transparent, symbolic AGI that runs millions of tokens/sec on CPUs, making safe, explainable AI accessible to everyone.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal health & development
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1
$0 / $500K

Unfunded Projects

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Sushant Shah

Project AXL

Building AI That Is The Hardware

Science & technology
5
0
$0 raised
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Sterlin Lujan

Edge City Governance Research via Polis Laboratories

Conducting focus groups, interviews, and delivering surveys to develop governance frameworks

Science & technologyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 raised
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Blake Bertuccelli-Booth

High School AI Lab for Ethical Learning

Prototype for Scalable, Secure AI Literacy in Public Schools

Science & technology
1
0
$0 raised
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Samuel Shadrach

Enable whistleblowers at AI companies

Science & technologyAI governance
1
4
$0 raised
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Cameron Berg

Am I? — A research documentary at the edge of machine consciousness

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
0
4
$0 raised