Responsible AI Governance Initiative (RAI-GI) - Seed Funding

Found the First Homegrown Initiative Shaping AI Governance in Africa

Creating 'Making God': a Feature Documentary on risks from AGI

Production costs for the filming of our ‘Making God’ - documentary on risks from AI for a public, non-technical audience.

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

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

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

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

[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

LambdaZero

LambdaZero An AI-Powered Research Engine for Science

Travel Funding to present research at ICLR2025

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

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Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology

Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)

Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).

Lightcone Infrastructure

Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects

Help me create a free programming school in my city

Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination

Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.

AI Animals and Digital Minds 2025

Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans

Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament

Evaluating LLM Safety in a Multilingual World

Book: A History of AI x-risk (open access)

Building on a course I've been designing, I'm writing a short book on the history of existential risk from AI for a general audience

TechnoEthos: A Dual Focus on Research and Technical Upskilling for Tech Ethics

Help me, an economic historian from an underrepresented background, develop tech skills and reflect on adv. technologies to pivot to an AI governance career.

Research on AI-Powered Peer Review: Evaluating LLMs for Academic Feedback

Comparing Closed and Open-Source Models for Reviews, fine-tuning LLMs on openreview data. Stretch: applying mech interp to find out the most important things