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Technical AI safety

17 proposals
69 active projects
$4.42M
Grants208Impact certificates20
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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
2
0
$400K / $400K
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Jared Johnson

Beyond Compute: Persistent Runtime AI Behavioral Conditioning w/o Weight Changes

Runtime safety protocols that modify reasoning, without weight changes. Operational across GPT, Claude, Gemini with zero security breaches in classified use

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $125K
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Armon Lotfi

When Safety Testing Costs More Than Model Training

Multi-agent AI security testing that reduces evaluation costs by 10-20x without sacrificing detection quality

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
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0
$999 / $15K
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Orpheus Lummis

Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026

Seminars on quantitative/guaranteed AI safety (formal methods, verification, mech-interp), with recordings, debates, and the guaranteedsafe.ai community hub.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governanceGlobal catastrophic risks
2
2
$4.3K / $30K
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Michaël Rubens Trazzi

Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike

Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyAI governance
1
1
$1K / $1.75K
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Quentin Feuillade--Montixi

AI-Powered Knowledge Management System for Alignment Research

Funding to cover the first 4 month and relocating to San Francisco

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
2
2
$50 / $20K
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Chris Wendler

Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS

Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safety
1
3
$1.1K raised
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Justin Olive

Inspect Evals

Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall

Technical AI safetyAI governance
10
3
$50K / $50K
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Ethan Nelson

Scaling Public Understanding of AI Alignment and Existential Risk

Leveraging a 23K Subscriber Channel to Advance AI Safety Discourse

Technical AI safetyAI governance
1
1
$100 / $20K
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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
8
4
$2.53K / $226K
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Micheal smith

Guardian AI

A National AI Co-Pilot for Emergency Response

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyForecastingGlobal catastrophic risksGlobal health & development
0
0
$0 / $80K
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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
3
$11K / $200K
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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
4
2
$15K / $30K
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Selma Mazioud

Travel grant to attend San Diego Alignment Workshop and NeurIPS

Attending NeurIPS and the San Diego AI Alignment Workshop to advance research on neural network safety and complexity.

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
1
0
$0 / $2.88K
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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
4
1
$32K raised
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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
8
33
$29.2K raised
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Aditya Raj

6-month research funding to challenge current AI safety methods

Current LLM safety methods—treat harmful knowledge as removable chunks. This is controlling a model and it does not work.

Technical AI safetyGlobal catastrophic risks
2
0
$0 / $16.5K
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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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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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$131K raised

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Steve Petersen

Systems that "give a damn"

Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being

Technical AI safetyAnimal welfare
6
5
$12K raised