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Technical AI safety

22 proposals
83 active projects
$5.59M
Grants250Impact certificates20
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deddy herman hidayat

Offline AI for Empowering Underserved Teens (Pilot PoC)

A privacy-first SLM trained on 2,000+ real teen experiences, optimized to run without internet on low-end smartphones for accessible mental well-being

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal health & development
1
0
$0 / $18K
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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
1
2
$0 / $3.85M
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Jacob Steinhardt

Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI

Technical AI safetyAI governance
5
2
$40.3K / $2M
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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
1
0
$0 / $30K
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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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Krishna Patel

Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)

Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models

Technical AI safetyBiomedicalBiosecurity
4
4
$150K raised
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Lawrence Wagner

Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
3
1
$10K raised
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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
1
0
$0 / $20.7K
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Preeti Ravindra

Addressing Agentic AI Risks Induced by System Level Misalignment

AI Safety Camp 2026 project: Bidirectional Failure modes between security and safety

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
5
0
$0 / $4K
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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
4
6
$355K raised
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Sean Peters

Evaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber Horizons

Measuring attack selection as an emergent capability, and extending offensive cyber time horizons to newer models and benchmarks

Technical AI safety
2
2
$41K / $41K
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Anthony Ware

Shallow Review of AI Governance: Mapping the Technical–Policy Implementation Gap

Identifying operational bottlenecks and cruxes between alignment proposals and executable governance.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $23.5K
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Parker Whitfill

Course Buyouts to Work on AI Forecasting, Evals

Technical AI safetyForecasting
3
2
$38K / $76K
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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
2
1
$128K 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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Gergő Gáspár

Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety 

Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS.

Technical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
9
6
$520 raised
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Visa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic

Technical AI safety
1
0
$4K raised
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA

From Nobel Signatures to Binding Red Lines: The 2026 Diplomatic Sprint

Leveraging 12 Nobel signatories to harmonize lab safety thresholds and secure an international agreement during the 2026 diplomatic window.

Technical AI safetyAI governance
6
0
$0 / $400K
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Miles Tidmarsh

CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans

Training AI to generalize compassion for all sentient beings using pretraining-style interventions as a more robust alternative to instruction tuning

Technical AI safetyAnimal welfare
1
1
$30K raised
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Muhammad Ahmad

Building Frontier AI Governance Capacity in Africa (Pilot Phase)

A pilot to build policy and technical capacity for governing high-risk AI systems in Africa

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurityForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $50K