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Technical AI safety

27 proposals
85 active projects
$5.69M
Grants268Impact certificates20
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Jeffrey Brunner

TELOS: Runtime Governance Infrastructure for AI Systems

Mathematical enforcement of AI behavioral boundaries at deployment time. 0% attack success rate on 1,300 adversarial prompts vs 30.8% baseline.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
0
$0 / $25K
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Mateusz Bagiński

Ambitious AI Alignment Seminar

One Month to Study, Explain, and Try to Solve Superintelligence Alignment

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
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12
$500 / $180K
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Boyd Kane

Get OpenAI employees addicted to factorio

by buying gift cards for the game and handing them out at the OpenAI offices

Technical AI safety
1
1
$0 / $3.5K
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Igor Labutin

AI:Save Our Souls

A tech-infused immersive musical. Experience the future of storytelling where artificial intelligence meets the depths of human emotion.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
2
0
$0 / $120K
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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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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
2
2
$10K raised
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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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Sara Holt

Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Short Documentary and Music Video

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $40K
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Avinash A

Terminal Boundary Systems and the Limits of Self-Explanation

Formalizing the "Safety Ceiling": An Agda-Verified Impossibility Theorem for AI Alignment

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$0 / $30K
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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 raised
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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
7
1
$0 / $4K
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Parker Whitfill

Course Buyouts to Work on AI Forecasting, Evals

Technical AI safetyForecasting
3
2
$38K raised
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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
2
$128K raised
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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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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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Ella Wei

Testing a Deterministic Safety Layer for Agentic AI (QGI Prototype)

A prototype safety engine designed to relieve the growing AI governance bottleneck created by the EU AI Act and global compliance demands.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $20K
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Chris Canal

Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure

Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide

Technical AI safetyAI governanceBiosecurity
3
7
$400K raised
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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
2
1
$30K raised

Unfunded Projects

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Travel support for career transitioner to attend AAAI 2026 (with accepted paper)

Technical AI safety
1
0
$0 raised