organization
Technical AI safety research
| Jaan Tallinn | $2,376,000 | 41% | 2 |
| Coefficient Giving | $1,515,000 | 26% | 2 |
| FTX Future Fund | $1,250,000 | 22% | 1 |
| UK AI Security Institute | $589,500 | 10% | 1 |
| Long-Term Future Fund | $72,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Low probability estimation: mechanistically estimating the probability of rare failures in machine learning systems — led by Jacob Hilton. — Alignment Project | |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $197,000 | Evals | sff | General support |
| Dec 2022 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $2,179,000 | Evals | sff | General Support |
| Nov 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $1,250,000 | Foundations | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Oct 2022 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $72,000 | Evals | ea_funds | A research & networking retreat for winners of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge contest |
| Mar 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $265,000 | Alignment methods | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | $1,250,000 | Technical AI safety research | ftx_future_fund | We recommended a grant to support researcher salaries, funding for contractors for evaluating AI capabilities, projects like the ELK prizes and workshops, and administrative expenses. — Artificial Intelligence |
* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | METR | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $3,247,000 | Evals | sff | General Support of Alignment Research Center (Evals Team) |