Bringing Indie Research on Foundational Neural Reps to NeurIPS 2025

A self-funded researcher presenting at NeurIPS NeurReps to showcase a new approach to geometry and cognition.

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

Responsible AI Governance Initiative (RAI-GI)

Elevating Africa’s Missing Voice in Global AI Safety

Generate and share music about AI risk

I am making music about AI risk

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

Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

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

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.

Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

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.

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

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

'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed

AI Internet-Socialism

Give money to each scientist solely based on an AI decision

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

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

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

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

Cultivating a Mechanistic Interpretability Community

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

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!)

‘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.