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11 proposals
39 active projects
$1.23M
Grants185Impact certificates21
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Pedro Bentancour Garin

Global Governance Layer & Defense Benchmarks for Advanced AI Systems

Building the first external oversight and containment framework + high-rigor attack/defense benchmarks to reduce catastrophic AI risk.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $350K
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Theia Vogel

Fund thebes' model tinkering

Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models

Science & technology
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9
$26.4K raised
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Jade Master

SDCPNs for AI Safety

Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$39K raised
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Markus Englund

Software to detect data fabrication

Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025
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1
$50K raised
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David Rozado

Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems

An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyACX Grants 2025AI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$50K raised
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GG

Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents

Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025Animal welfareBiosecurity
0
1
$50K / $125K
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Bryan Davis

OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance

A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025Biomedical
0
1
$50K raised
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Adam "Poe" Wilson

Social Enterprise designed to insulate a lab from external pressures

This is to prevent issues of misalignment due to investors and nation backers

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
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0
$0 / $200K
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David Carel

Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025BiomedicalBiosecurityGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
0
1
$150K raised
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Armon Lotfi

When Safety Testing Costs More Than Model Training

Multi-agent AI security testing that reduces evaluation costs by 10-20x without sacrificing detection quality

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$999 / $15K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike

Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
3
$1.75K raised
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Leo Hyams

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

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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4
$2.53K raised
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Chris Wendler

Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS

Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
3
$1.1K raised
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Akshyae Singh

The first AI Safety Creator Affiliate Program

Scaling AI safety research to 10M+ people through the first distributed content creation project

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityForecasting
0
0
$0 / $55K
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Thane Ruthenis

Synthesizing Standalone World-Models

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

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
3
5
$11.5K raised
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Aditya Arpitha Prasad

Groundless Alignment Residency 2025

Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
4
3
$15K raised
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Jared Johnson

Beyond Compute: Persistent Runtime AI Behavioral Conditioning w/o Weight Changes

Runtime safety protocols that modify reasoning, without weight changes. Operational across GPT, Claude, Gemini with zero security breaches in classified use

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $125K
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Faisal Moarafur Rasul

Inquiro: Building a Global Hub for Understanding AI

A media and learning platform exploring how AI thinks — featuring Philosopher AI, an educative system that explains its reasoning.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
0
0
$0 / $10K
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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
2
5
$10K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Quentin Feuillade--Montixi

AI-Powered Knowledge Management System for Alignment Research

Funding to cover the first 4 month and relocating to San Francisco

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
2
$0 raised