Manifund foxManifund
Home
Login
About
People
Categories
Newsletter
HomeAboutPeopleCategoriesLoginCreate
header image

Technical AI safety

5 proposals
68 active projects
$3.81M
Grants192Impact certificates20
seanpetersau avatar

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
3
1
$32K raised
adityaarpitha avatar

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
michaeltrazzi avatar

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
9
32
$29.2K raised
The-AI-Risk-Network avatar

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
2
$29 / $50K
Connoraxiotes avatar

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
6
$550 raised
Anthony avatar

Anthony Duong

2 months full-time contributing software to Inspect

Technical AI safety
2
2
$20K raised
🥦

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
3
1
$3K raised
🦑

David Chanin

Support for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects

Technical AI safety
3
1
$6.8K raised
Apart avatar

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
33
39
$131K raised
🐷

H

Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority

Technical AI safetyAI governance
0
1
$87.5K raised
🐧

Bryce Meyer

TransformerLens - Bridge Funding

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
7
4
$30K raised
skunnavakkam avatar

Sudarsh Kunnavakkam

Tooling + Model Orgs for CoT Faithfulness Research

Building model organisms of CoT and Python packages for intervention in reasoning traces

Technical AI safety
1
3
$3K raised
🦀

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
los_angeleno1176 avatar

Kristina Vaia

AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)

The official AI safety community in Los Angeles

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
9
$2.5K raised
Connoraxiotes avatar

Connor Axiotes

'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
19
46
$205K raised
Reese avatar

Igor Ivanov

Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox

Technical AI safety
2
2
$3.11K raised
Asterisk-Magazine avatar

Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
6
2
$70K raised
StandardAsset avatar

Shawn Kulasingham

‘Build Responsibly’ | A Documentary Making AI Safety Engaging for the Public.

Creating a cinematic AI safety documentary with entertainment value for the public. Need 5k to create trailer & foundational interviews.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceEA communityGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 / $150K

Complete Projects

StevePetersen avatar

Steve Petersen

Systems that "give a damn"

Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being

Technical AI safetyAnimal welfare
6
5
$12K raised

Unfunded Projects

🐸

Itay Yona

Cultivating a Mechanistic Interpretability Community

Sustaining and Scaling a Grassroots Research Collective for Neural Network Interpretability and Control

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyEA community
4
2
$0 raised