Agent Threat Rules (ATR): open detection rule corpus for AI agent attacks

344 MIT rules merged into Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit, Cisco AI Defense, MISP, OWASP. Microsoft Copilot SWE Agent uses ATR for CVE triage.

Vibing build: AI Hardware Orchestration

AI infrastructure for turning natural language hardware ideas into manufacturable devices

Cross-provider audit of LLM-mediated market mechanisms

Small API budget to test whether semantic reporting failures in an OpenAI-validated VCG market simulation replicate across Claude and Gemini.

Solon: A Reliable Autonomous ML Research Agent

Building an AI research agent that can propose, test, and write up small ML findings

Funding to work on global AI safety and governance infrastructure

Building early AI governance and safety systems focused on alignment, oversight and risk reduction before more capable AI arrives.

Travel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conference

$5,000 USD to bring 16 vetted academics and policy leads to NZ's first AI Safety Conference, ensuring national representation and cross-sector collaboration

Agentic Systems Framework/Theory

First-principles theory of the adaptive feedback loop — one structural account governing Kalman filters, RL agents, software teams, and frontier LLMs alike.

Meridian Eval: a public benchmark for tool-routing failures in LLM agents

Make "which tool did the agent pick, and why?" an inspectable artifact instead of a vector lookup.

ICSAC: AI-Assisted Peer Review for Independent Researchers

An ORCID-gated submission pipeline where a multi-model AI panel plus quality-control layer delivers rigorous peer review without institutional gatekeeping.

Lyptus Research: Bridge Funding

An early-stage AI safety research group based in Sydney, Australia

African Livestock AI Evals: Benchmarking LLMs on Nigerian Agricultural Knowledge

The first AI safety evaluation benchmark for Nigerian indigenous livestock systems testing whether frontier models are safe to deploy in African food systems.

TELL: The AI Detector You *Don't* Have To Trust

Putting explainability at the forefront of AI text detection

Precautionary AGI Governance

Limited Legal Personhood as a Reversible Safety Instrument

Funding for ICML attendance 2026

Requesting funding for ICML 2026 spotlight position paper on ML safety for combating intimate partner violence

Retroactive: Travel for two ICLR 2026 workshop papers (Rio)

Two co-authored workshop papers (LLM reasoning, agentic-AI accountability), presented April 2026 in Rio. Asking partial trip reimbursement.

Golem Physics + Constraint Native: Verification Before Voice & Action

Funding the open-source launch of a working claim-state system and the local firewall bridge that carries verification before voice into governed agent action.

Decoding Logic: Mechanistic Interpretability in LLMs in a research program

Identifying and auditing reasoning circuits in LLMs within Algoverse 2026 using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs).

Emergent misalignment and memetic replication in multi-agent codebases

Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)

Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by artificial intelligence.

Hardening a fail-closed runtime for agentic AI systems

This round of funding will be used primarily for prototype hardening, artifact packaging, runtime evaluation, and preparation for external review.