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10 proposals
30 active projects
$775K
Grants159Impact certificates21
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Nicole Doyle

Aspir

Science & technologyGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $50K
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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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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
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2
$0 / $40K
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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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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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Bryce Meyer

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
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4
$30K raised
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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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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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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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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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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
18
41
$205K 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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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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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
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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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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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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

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