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19 proposals
43 active projects
$1.98M
Grants211Impact certificates21
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Alex Leader

Offensive Cyber Kill Chain Benchmark for LLM Evaluation

Measuring whether AI can autonomously execute multi-stage cyberattacks to inform deployment decisions at frontier labs

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
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2
$0 / $3.85M
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Joseph E Brown

Architectural Governance to Prevent Authority Drift in AI Systems

A constraint-first approach to ensuring non-authoritative, fail-closed behavior in large language models under ambiguity and real-world pressure

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
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0
$0 / $30K
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Pedro Bentancour Garin

A Governed AI Research Platform for Cross-Domain Scientific Discovery

Building the governance and orchestration layer for safe, autonomous AI-driven research and innovation.

Science & technology
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0
$0 / $200K
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Mackenzie Conor James Clark

AURA Protocol: Measurable Alignment for Autonomous AI Systems

An open-source framework for detecting and correcting agentic drift using formal metrics and internal control kernels

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $75K
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Xyra Sinclair

SOTA Public Research Database + Search Tool

Unlocking the paradigm of agents + SQL + compositional vector search

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyBiomedicalAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
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0
$0 / $20.7K
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Finn Metz

AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2

Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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6
$355K raised
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João Medeiros da Fonseca

Elo Clínico:

Phenomenological Fine-tuning for Medical AI Alignment

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $50K
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Will Shin

Building an Educational Universe Through Animals and Longtermist Storytelling

A global IP project reimagining ecology and future technology and institutions through character-driven narratives.

Science & technologyAI governanceAnimal welfareBiosecurityEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $15K
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Mirco Giacobbe

Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety

Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
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1
$128K raised
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Justin Bianchini

FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias

A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias.

Science & technologyBiomedical
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5
$5K raised
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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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Sandy Tanwisuth

Alignment as epistemic system governance under compression

We reframe the alignment problem as the problem of governing meaning and intent when they cannot be fully expressed.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
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0
$0 / $20K
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Christopher Kuntz

Protocol-Level Interaction Risk Assessment and Mitigation (UIVP)

A bounded protocol audit and implementation-ready mitigation for intent ambiguity and escalation in deployed LLM systems.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $5K
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Jasraj Hari Krishna Budigam

TimeAlign v2: contamination-aware evals for small models (16GB GPUs)

Reusable, low-compute benchmarking that detects data leakage, outputs “contamination cards,” and improves calibration reporting.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $46K
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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
2
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
$50.2K / $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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Thomas Briggs

Charting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America

This nationwide report will provide a detailed account of the policies states have that in place to help advanced learners thrive.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025EA community
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3
$8.35K raised