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Aaron Silverbook

individual · Manifund

OtherTechnical AI safety research

Received
$45,640
from 11 funders
Grants
11
Funders
11
Years active
2023–25

Grants over time

$0$20K$40K$60K202320242025
Isaak FreemanAustin ChenACX GrantsBrendan LongAleksei BesogonovAll others

Reviews

Isaak Freeman · Manifund · full post · Jul 18, 2023

Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor , Jul 2023

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Matching Austin's commitment. I think this is ambitious and feasible. It's just awesome to cure caries forever, and also to serve as an inspiration of projects that are simultaneously ambitious, altruistic, and potentially self-sustaining companies. I don't mind whether this is an investment or a grant.

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Nov 6, 2025ACX GrantsManifund$5,000Alignment methodsmanifund"Sweeten" training corpora with stories of nice AI
Sep 19, 2023Lars EnglundManifund$10OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Sep 19, 2023Vincent WeisserManifund$50OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Aug 12, 2023Brendan LongManifund$100OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 2023Aleksei BesogonovManifund$100OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 20231addd8e2-f44c-4ed6-bd8b-99c006087f71Manifund$100OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 2023Nicholas DoironManifund$80OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 2023Isaak FreemanManifund$20,000OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 2023Austin ChenManifund$20,000OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 26, 2023Mandar GokhaleManifund$100OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 17, 2023rolf.andreassenManifund$100OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor

Grants made 3 · $17,022 · $5,674 average

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 5, 2026Geodesic ResearchManifund$1,000Org incubation & opsmanifundSeed Funding For Geodesic Research
Dec 2, 2025Justin BianchiniManifund$5,000OthermanifundFloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias
—Machine Intelligence Research Institute$11,022Foundationsorg_reportedRecent top contributor; cumulative contributions over the past 5 years incl. matching