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Technical AI safety

9 proposals
68 active projects
$3.83M
Grants198Impact certificates20
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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
9
1
$20.3K / $50K
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Jhet Chan

Travel Funding to present research at NeurIPS 2025

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

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
0
$0 / $5K
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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
6
1
$30 / $226K
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Sean Peters

3 Months Career Transition into AI Safety Research & Software Engineering

I'd like to explore a research agenda at the intersection of time horizon model evaluation and control protocols.

Technical AI safety
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1
$32K raised
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Muhammad Ahmad Janyau

Responsible AI Governance Initiative (RAI-GI)

Elevating Africa’s Missing Voice in Global AI Safety

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
0
0
$0 / $25K
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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
1
$0 / $200K
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fernando yupanqui

Generate and share music about AI risk

I am making music about AI risk

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
0
0
$0 / $1K
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David Giagnocavo

FrameworkZero: International Hybrid-Technical AI Governance DAO

A foundational framework for responsible AI development

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
0
0
$0 / $23K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People

20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers

Technical AI safetyAI governance
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$29.2K raised
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Lindsay Langenhoven

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.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
1
3
$129 / $50K
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Connor Axiotes

Making God's Post-Production: Aiming for Netflix

Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
3
7
$550 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
3
0
$0 / $30K
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Anthony Duong

2 months full-time contributing software to Inspect

Technical AI safety
2
2
$20K raised
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Hieu Minh Nguyen

Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics

LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
4
1
$3K raised
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Apart Research

Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA community
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39
$131K raised
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David Chanin

Support for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects

Technical AI safety
3
1
$6.8K raised
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Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority

Technical AI safetyAI governance
0
1
$87.5K raised
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Bryce Meyer

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
7
4
$30K raised
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Chi Nguyen

Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
8
3
$70K raised

Complete Projects

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Steve Petersen

Systems that "give a damn"

Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being

Technical AI safetyAnimal welfare
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5
$12K raised